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1. 20 18 16 a MUF 14 O LUF 12 DX Latitude 13 2 10 MHz i DX Longitude 104 5 6 Date 15 May 4 Sun SpotNo 10 0 2 Path s 0 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 UTC Figure 5 Pop up window showing single point prediction over 24 hour period Alternative Map Projections There is a choice of two map projections These are cylindrical and azimuthal selectable respectively by the buttons or the corresponding menu options Plotting Projection Cylindical or Plotting Projection Azimuthal The default projection is cylindrical This projection is useful for giving an overall view The azimuthal projection is of most use when considering the propagation path In this projection you see two hemispheres of the earth the home location or its antipodes is at the centre of a hemisphere Radial lines from these central points are of constant bearing from the home location Figure 6 gives an example of the azimuthal projection 80 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction GJ MuFSight Tal ES File Setup Plotting Help Mon MUF 11 6 LUF 11 3 DX Latitude 399 DXLongitude 56 2 Bearing 273 GCPath 4334 Home 51 5 Lat 2 1 Long Date 15 May Time 12 00 UTC Sun Spot 10 Path s Figure 6 An example of the display using the azimuthal projection Monitoring Frequency A powerful feature is the ability to select a monitoring frequency that you are either listening on or transmitting on When
2. pal E The FilelGet from RX command gets a file of data from the radio and places it in the currently active window You should open a new window before getting new data 1f you do not want to overwrite the current window You can abort this operation in the same way as you can for sending data simply click on the Abort push button in the dialog that is displayed A Data in the current window will be overwritten Print a The FilelPrint command prints the contents of the active window Use FilelPrint Setup to select a printer and to set printer options Only memory channels with data in them will be printed Print Setup The FilelPrinter Setup command displays the Printer Setup dialog box which allows you to select and configure the Windows compatible printer to be used to print documents in the application 30 File menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Send E This File menu option allows you to send memory files using e mail through Microsoft Exchange When you select FilelSend Exchange is launched automatically and pre loaded with the current active memory file ready for you to send it as an e mail attachment over the Internet You can also send memory files as FAXes using Exchange Exit The FilelExit command exits AR7030 Tuner If you have modified files without saving you ll be prompted to save before exiting 31 File menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows EDIT ME
3. Help Contents About MUBsight monitored frequency value and can be used to display areas of the globe that are audible according to the propagation prediction This feature is similar to Monitoring Frequency but allows the monitoring frequency to be obtained automatically Monitoring Frequency Initially opens the Monitoring Frequency dialog box allowing the entry of the desired monitoring frequency Subsequent use of this option toggles the plotting for the audible regions on the maps indicated by the status of the Monitoring Frequency button on the Toolbar Projection Cylindrical or Projection Azimuthal These options allow the selection of a cylindrical projection of the map of the world square symbol or an azimuthal projection circular symbol The cylindrical plot gives a good over view of the propagation conditions over the globe The azimuthal plot is useful in that radial lines from the home location are on a constant bearing Usable Frequency MUF or Usable Frequency LUF These options allows selection between plotting the maximum usable frequency MUF or lowest usable frequency LUF against the world map Resolution Low or Resolution Medium or Resolution High These options allow the selection of low medium and high resolution of plot These correspond to regions on the map of 10 5 and 2 5 degree increments of latitude and longitude respectively Fl Allows activation of on line
4. E E 4 5 6 kHz mir WN E EM ER 7 8 3 0 ies amp EM RF gain Keypad Volume Knob main Tuning Rotary controls Power Switch Click on the power switch to close the Digital Desktop personality window You can open it again at any time from the Personalities menu option on the desktop S meter The S meter display is a needle type which moves in step with the received signal strength AGC push buttons These push buttons can be used to select the AGC speed or OFF Click on the required button to change the AGC setting An LED lights up next to the selected speed 25 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Status Display This sophisticated display shows you the main settings of the receiver at a glance The display includes the frequency and mode of VFO A the frequency of VFO B the current IF bandwidth the BFO setting the current passband shift setting and an IF status display see below VFO A Mode A VEO BA IF Display Passband Shift BFO Bandwidth The IF Display indicates graphically which IF filter has been selected and shows you where it is positioned in frequency in the IF This is useful for working out how to select PBS and bandwidth options The display is calibrated as follows IF bandwidth A 5kHz OkHz 5kHz Bandwidth push buttons These push buttons let you cycle through the available IF filters that are installed in your radio Click on the
5. dialog box so you can select a file and create a new window to display it Open BEI File name Folders test mem eyes 3 ar7030 I Read only gt List files of type Drives Memory File mem n y EJ c gold Close FilelClose closes the currently active window If you have modified the file without saving you will be prompted to save before exiting Save Ex Ba The FilelSave command saves the file in the active window to disk If the file is unnamed the FilelSave As dialog box is displayed so you can name the file and choose where it is to be saved Save As The FilelSave As command allows you to save a file under a new name or in a new location on disk The command displays the standard Save As dialog box You can enter the new file name including the drive and directory 29 File menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Send to RX Ey aa The FilelSend to RX command transfer the contents of the current window to your radio using RS 232 commands If you are sending memory data all channels in the radio will be cleared before the data is sent This ensures that the data stored in the radio is exactly the same as that displayed in the memory data window You can use the following dialog to abort sending data by simply clicking on the abort push button Abort Click on cancel to abort Help A Data in your radio will be overwritten Get from RX
6. 885 DIRECT TUHE SIGHAL MOR communications RECEMER AOR DATA MASTER User s Manual Simon Collings G4SGI 1996 Software Published and Distributed by AOR UK LTD 4E East Mill Bridgefoot Belper Derbyshire DE56 2UA ENGLAND Tel 44 1773 880788 Fax 44 1773 880780 info aoruk com http www aoruk com Note This electronic version has forced formatting as a result page indexing may be incorrect AOR DATA MASTER for Windows CONTENTS MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENT cccsccssscsssssssscsssscssscssssssssssnsscssssssssees 7 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE cocssssscssosseesssecsosssssseseeessnscsonsccscnssssssnsssonsoossessoess 8 Copy Protection noenee e aia er sack ese ame 8 To Install the Tuner Applicati0DsS ooooooococccononcccnononcconoconnnnnccnnncnccnnnnnnos 11 To Install the Data Base Toolkit oooooooonooccccoooncconcnoconnncconcncconoccnncnononos 12 How to Setup the Software cccsssccssssecssssecsscecssececssneesssccesssscesssseessescesnees 15 AOR AR7030 Tuner for Wind Ow scsccsssscssssscssssccssseccssssccssccsssssccsccscsoscees 16 INTRODUCTION o ee e Ma DO Ae Ale 17 Acknowledgment AA serene ng 17 GETTING STARTED e dl 19 RS 232 COMME e ds lo dde 19 Starting the Program ts 19 Setna 0 3 3 e e Rc 20 Obtamios Heladio 21 Travel Portable Personality ooooonnnnnnnnncccnoncccnonccoconccononcnonancnonananonananonnnnnos 21 C
7. DXLatitude 35 5 DXLongitude 106 4 Bearing 302 GCPath 7888 Home 51 5 Lat 2 1 Long Date 15 May Time 12 00 UTC Sun Spot 10 Path s Figure 4 Example screen showing plotting of usable frequency using defaults low resolution and MUF You can examine the values generated by moving the mouse over the map The status bar at the top of the map shows the values of MUF and LUF in MHz the latitude and longitude the bearing and great circle path distance in km from the home location of the position pointed to by the mouse Advanced Features Usable Frequencies There is a choice between plotting the Maximum Usable Frequency MUF or the Lowest Usable Frequency LUF i the map This choice can be made by selecting the appropriate button from the toolbar or by the corresponding menu option Plotting Usable Frequency MUF or Plotting Usable Frequency LUF Spatial Resolution A choice between three different spatial resolutions is available for the selected usable frequencies by the buttons or by the corresponding menu options Plotting Resolution Low Plotting Resolution Medium or Plotting Resolution High 79 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction Single Point Prediction If you double click the mouse on the map you generate a plot of the MUF and LUF at the single DX location pointed to by the mouse over a 24 hour period in a separate popup window as shown in figure 5
8. The logbook form is shown in the picture below It has a number of features including push buttons for adding or deleting whole records for closing the form and for obtaining help The logbook entries are shown in the table in the central part of the form You can click on individual fields in each record and type in the information you want Tora Push burtons i E A 1 hats hema Laghask Listeners Loghodk Ree lei GATT ST AAT PE FARO BO ERPORT COMMENT 17 pam jis na soem Fre bader and Leds i i ale 0030 His A Metre Molo Fas 1 iaa GE Gees r Pasco araia inaran Fi Tagih cer t Te RE mS to nace oF on P oos aii bis Tono Fer 5 ee va tet T Delete check Fields hoe i Record cubes Date base Lala You can display the records of data in the logbook as a table or as forms by clicking Fz on the A F2 to cycle through the formats supported The default is to display the records in table format Each record of data contains a number of fields you can move between fields by clicking in them individually with your mouse or using the Ta tab key Click on the Add push button to start a new entry If you are using Listener s Logbook with an AOR radio control package that supports the AOR Data Base Toolkit some of the fields are filled automatically with data using a DDE query Add Button n Ta This form push button adds a new record to the table You may enter data into the logbook directly simply by typing into
9. means does not equal eg the expression mode CW will extract all records that have CW in the mode field Logical combinations of conditions Conditions are expressions such as those above eg place Buxton conditionl AND condition2 where selection takes place when both condition 1 and condition 2 are true condition OR condition2 where selection takes place if condition 1 or condition 2 are true 104 Expression Builder AOR Data Base Toolkit eg the expression service HF FAX AND mode LSB will select only those records from the HF utility data base that correspond to HF FAX stations using LSB Comparing frequency values Frequencies are stored as strings in data base records for maximum flexibility This means that if you want to compare frequencies you must first convert to values VAL freg field name eg the expression VAL freq gt 10000 0 will select all records that have a frequency greater than 10MHz You can combine several expressions into a complex search criterion which can extract precisely the data you want from the data base you are using 105 Expression Builder AOR Data Base Toolkit LISTENERS LOGBOOK The Listener s Logbook allows you to maintain a logbook of the stations you listen to in a data base table It includes the ability to store an audio clip with each entry as an OLE object requires Windows compatible sound card and sound software not supplied
10. much thicker You can clear the display using the OptionsIClear menu option or print it out using the Otions Print menu option You can also measure the frequency and signal level of each signal trace by moving your mouse over the display Moving position indicator bars help you to line up the mouse over the display The mouse position is shown in the bottom left hand corner of the display in terms of frequency and signal level HF Utilities This option launches the optional HF Utilities data base if installed The data base application is part of the AOR Data Base Toolkit available separately and is a separate executable Refer to the on line help and the AOR Data Base Toolkit manual for further details HF Broadcasters This option launches the HF Broadcasters data base application from the optional AOR Data Base Toolkit Logbook This menu option launches the Shortwave Listener s Logbook data base application from the optional AOR Data Base Toolkit 39 Tools menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows WINDOW MENU OPTIONS This menu allows you to change the way that windows are displayed on the AR7030 Tuner desktop A list of the files that are currently open is appended automatically to the bottom of the menu Cascade The WindowlCascade command arranges all document windows from the top left position of the application s main window so that the title bar of each is visible Tile The Window Ti
11. use parentheses in the Find What text box AOR Data Base Toolkit searches the field specified in Located in Field for the value that the expression evaluates to AOR Data Base Toolkit searches for records where the selected field matches the value of another field in the same record For example you could search for records where the ID field equals the COMMENT field by selecting ID in the Located in Field list and specifying COMMENT in the Find What text box Located in Field Choose the field to search Search Rules Defines the search parameters These options are available for AOR Data Base Toolkit character and memo fields Standard Searches for records whose field begins with or matches the Find What value Exact Length Searches for records whose field contains exactly the Find What value including its length Anywhere in Field Searches for records whose field has the Find What value anywhere inside it Sounds Like Searches for records whose field sounds like the Find What value The search is a sound a like or phonetic search Match Case Matches both uppercase and lowercase letters in the Find What value and field to search Start Search From Choose where you want to start the search in the data base table Top Record Starts the search from the first record in the data base table 94 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit Current Record Starts the search from the current record in the data b
12. AR3030 Tuner for Windows INTRODUCTION Welcome to AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows This is a powerful RS 232 control application for the AR3030 general coverage receiver which forms part of the AOR DATA MASTER package This simple to use program lets you configure memory data tune the radio from a realistic front panel display and import transmitter data from the AOR Data Base Toolkit overlaying 1t onto a world map for point and click tuning The program uses an RS 232 serial port to communicate with your radio and has these exciting features and more e Easy to use intuitive windowing system with tile and cascade You may have any number of memory data files of 100 channels as you wish disk space permitting e Comprehensive editing features for memory data including intelligent cut paste and line renumbering e On line context sensitive help You may obtain help from the main menu and in all dialogs Help is also available from the desktop simply by pressing the A Fl key e Tune your radio using a realistic front panel display complete with needle s meter for a realistic virtual AR3030 on your PC e Import text reports from the AOR Data Base Toolkit plot transmitter data on a spherical projection world map from any vantage point and tune using a point and click interface e Obtain on line instant HF propagation predictions using MUFsight display those parts of the world that are audible on a world map e Send memory data to y
13. MENU OPTIONS eci osiioitiianii n ii dais ideada 40 ASC AG oi orchid DERE REESE SER ENES aisha ids sedate esa SES SEERE REE BOYLE BESES eae SE SENDER 40 A A ES SEEGER 40 Arrange consina e IN A A 40 Clio o a n aas 40 MAPS sd chess ees aa de el o as 41 BEING ech E ioe A A 42 Overlay e a TN es Meee aL Be ae At A 42 Cl h sd citi ke Ceo eee BA ae os 42 e 42 PROVING vies nat a ct oan otusianasaaas ads 42 WAC O O A anes E 43 Vantage Por DEERE T N R 43 Loom Mia tds 43 A eine a oe ease ee 43 AM e a EL ERP ENE edad dd ela FEE 43 Rotate 90 degrees a dori aincuiieas dade daxsdter goatee Ad bbens 43 Rotate 90 degrees iii ii een 43 AOR AR3030 Tuner for WindOwg ccsssccssssccssssccssssccsssscsssscscsscscsssssssssssscescees 44 INTRODUCTION 4 ise ea SOS 45 Acknowledemenl 5 65 scacivesici i ere anise aadnu wea EA sis 46 GETTING STARTED a ea oe ados 47 RS 232 connection Mee lee has ia MRE GARG es 47 Starting he Proa o ae ea ees 47 A A a a ak a tana ea rende deres 49 Obt inins Help i esses asic a 50 Front Pa l lana rias 50 FILE MENU OPTIONS iii 53 Ned E 53 A las tale RENE SENDER SE a a advan URE RENEE 53 O REDER 53 SS BG EEN O SURE DEF DEN eN HER USR EESE LES EL PE 53 Save A Sr o cote aes o A 53 Send t 2 0 Sete etn nT ep EYES eS or oe OP ee ey mee aA 54 Get from i Oe e a e OE aE Rane EST 54 Pr O e ARE SEERE ETERN 54 Print SOUP ages ad 55 SER hc rr foie ds e e e e o o o O 56 A A eee SENER 56 EDIT MENU OPIN a LO ae Be SN OI e
14. after editing using Clipboard or whenever the channels are not in the right order before sending the data to the radio 33 Edit menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows SETUP MENU OPTIONS This set of menu options will allow you to alter the setup of the AR7030 Tuner software and tune your radio Tune gl The SetupITune command opens a dialog box which allows you to set the frequency and mode of the radio direct from the desktop Tune x Frequency 198 00 kHz nem Cancel Mode USB a LSB Help Cw AM Use the Tune dialog to select the parameters you want and click on OK to accept or CANCEL to abort The RS 232 command needed to change the radio is sent and the status display on the tool bar updated when you press OK You can select the receiver s mode IF filter and AGC speed direct from the keyboard as follows F2 a SNC F3 a F4 a DAT F5 Ae F6 F LSB F7 a USB F8 cycle through available filters I cycle though AGC speeds Time This menu option is used to set the AR7030 s internal clock from the system clock of your PC The software attempts to compensate for offset from UTC and implements 34 Setup menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows daylight saving if you are running under Windows 95 You will need to have your PC clock set correctly for this to work The time in the radio is updated immediately on selection of this menu option Power On Reset This
15. from any vantage point and tune using a point and click interface e Obtain on line instant HF propagation predictions using MUFsight display those parts of the world that are audible on a world map e Send memory data to your radio or get data from your radio and print it out e Display the spectrum when searching measure frequency and signal strength with your mouse e Access G4SGI SWL working aids on the subjects of foreign language recognition propagation modulation and the international bandplan e Send memory files as e mail over the Internet through Microsoft Exchange A You have purchased a licence to install and operate a maximum of two copies of the AOR Tuner software both AR3030 and AR7030 There are two copy protection tokens on the master disk See the section on copy protection for more details Acknowledgment This program uses geographical data placed in the public domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio Riveria Original coordinate data was created by the Central Intelligence Agency 17 Introduction AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows 18 Introduction AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows GETTING STARTED RS 232 connection You must connect your radio to an RS 232 port of your computer before you can operate the software A screened cable with a minimum of 3 conductors is required for connecting the PC to the receiver A If screened cable is not used then digital noise may radiate from the conductors of th
16. i dotan pes hard A AOR PPS li puami la octal to Gerd decoy a ona eet dhe paoi ihe path abres Ta come mislio doon Lorie a per Eria Ta cael sillin choc Cannel Ce om w Type in the target directory you want to install the data base into it need not be the default but you will need to setup the tuner applications if it is not You should then see the following dialog displayed Setup Alert o You are now ready for Installation To complete installation choose Install or press Enter To cancel installation choose Cancel Cancel Click on Install to continue or Cancel to abort and stop installing the Data Base Toolkit Assuming that you continued you should then see the files from the first floppy disk being copied onto your system After a while you will need to remove the floppy disk and insert the next one in the set When this happens the following dialog is displayed 13 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows ht Tek 2 31 HOP than dham Loras ca pete ENTER by Conde Fihi Be canbe lund al adire locali n ca ora a 5 dra hpa Ha nea pah ri tha ber bara Pa Tiopira iion choces Donii or pre ENTER Tomes roskao choo Cancel ar past ESC pea You should not need to alter the location of the distribution disk Place disk 2 of the set in the floppy drive and click on Continue Repeat until you have used all the floppy disks You will then be given the opp
17. in their manuals 7 The copy protection scheme is known to be compatible with the following disk defragmenters Central Point s Compress Digital Research s Diskopt Stac s Sdefrag and Microsoft s Defrag 8 The copy protection scheme is not currently compatible with Windows NT 9 The copy protection scheme is not compatible with non standard floppy disk systems At present 7 95 this includes the following PCs 9 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Evesham Vale Voyager laptop Zeos Pentiums It is possible to install onto a PC with a non standard floppy disk or no floppy disk using a networked standard drive The easiest way to do this if you do not already have a network is to use the INTERLNK or INTERSVR utilities supplied with MS DOS 10 The copy protection scheme is compatible with Windows 95 However you can completely erase your tokens using Explorer to drag and drop the DATA MASTER directory onto the Recycle bin Although the token files are not deleted they cannot be restored to their original positions on disk EXPLORER DOES NOT GIVE WARNINGS LIKE FILE MANAGER UNDER WINDOWS 3 X See the section of this manual entitled MOVING COPY PROTECTION for instructions on using the utility for moving the copy protection token 10 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows To Install the Tuner Applications Place the first of the tuner distribution disks in floppy drive A and follow thes
18. m T pars 117s REFEATE MFM GEGFR Spb HIN DEE lia OF es 151 REPEATEFHFIA AS Daga E ES m A iar TRL REFERTERHFMA BEJGH beds E 26w a E REPEATER HF The layout and features supported by the VHF UHF form are similar to those on the HF Broadcasters and HF Utilities forms Details on the report facilities offered are given in the HF Broadcasters section of this manual Add Button alt A ia A form push button adds a new record to the table at the current position To edit a new entry you simply type into the table that is displayed When you add an entry the SERVICE CALLSIGN STATION and PLACE fields from the current record are carried over into the new record Report Button This form push button opens the standard Expression Builder dialog which can be used to construct a valid dBase expression See the Expression Builder section of this manual for further details Close Button 114 VHF UHF Form AOR Data Base Toolkit This form push button closes the VHF UHF Form If the VHF UHF Form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button This form push button opens this help file at the contents for VHF UHF Utilities 115 VHF UHF Form AOR Data Base Toolkit BRITISH ISLES PLACE NAMES FORM The British Isles Place Names Form allows you to maintain and add to the list of over 3500 British Isles place names that AOR Data Base Toolkit uses to key geograp
19. the table that is displayed on the form If you using an AOR radio control package that supports DDE transfers Logbook will query the application for the current frequency and mode The time and date fields are automatically filled in from your PC s system clock 106 Listener s Logbook AOR Data Base Toolkit To add an audio clip to the entry you will first need to create an audio file in a format supported by your PC in a suitable directory You are not limited to wave audio WAV files if you have drivers for other formats installed on your system For example by downloading the Real Audio encoder from the Internet you can convert wave audio files to real audio RA format to save space at some cost to audio quality Microsoft Plus an optional part of Windows 95 supports real audio playback without the need to install any additional software you just need the encoder Once the audio file has been created you can add it to a logbook entry using an OLE link Object Linking and Embedding This is easily done by double clicking on the AUDIO field of the Logbook table to open the OLE viewer window for the required entry and by dragging the wave audio file using Explorer into it Note you may need to move your mouse after you have dropped the file to complete the object link owing to a bug in the Visual dBase system used to develop the application To delete an OLE object from the AUDIO field open the OLE viewer window and
20. their characteristic electron densities Ozone layer The D layer or more usually know as the D region due to its limits being less easy to define compared to the other layers occurs at an altitude of 50 90 km and has relatively low electron density Radio waves are attenuated on passing through this region The E layer at 90 130 km has a higher electron density and acts as a reflector of radio waves The F1 layer at an altitude of 130 200km and F2 layer at an altitude of over 200km have still higher electron densities and are of most importance for long distance HF propagation The electron density in these regions varies with height and in a range such that propagation occurs but the speed of propagation is affected The change in density with height means that radio waves can be refracted and their paths can be bent in a similar fashion to light passing through a prism Radio waves can travel from the transmitter through the ionosphere and be redirected downwards to the earth once more to be picked up by receivers enabling signals to be transmitted beyond the horizon If the conditions are favourable signals 75 Propagation in the atmosphere MUFsight Propagation Prediction may make multiple skips bouncing from the ground and being refracted by the ionosphere to travel around the globe Ionosphere a DAY The degree of refraction is dependent on the electron density the frequency of the radio waves
21. this facility is selected you can generate plots of the usable frequencies against the world maps with high lighted areas where the monitoring frequency is above the LUF and below the MUF indicating the regions of the world that are audible for that particular time of day and propagation conditions By pressing the button or selecting the Plotting Monitoring Frequency menu option the Monitored Frequency dialog box figure 7 appears allowing the entry of a decimal frequency in the range 1 to 150 MHz Monitored Frequency Ed Frequency Cancel Help Figure 7 Monitored Frequency Dialog Box On pressing the OK button to close the dialog box the selected monitoring frequency is displayed on the top status bar The next time you plot a prediction the audible regions for this frequency are shown as areas of the colour red Figure 8 shows such a plot 81 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction GJ MUFSight File Setup Plotting Help GUD ED J tel les 9 Mon 15 MUF LUF DX Latitude DX Longitude Bearing GCPath Home 51 5 Lat 2 1 Long Date 15 May Time 1200UTC SunSpot 10 Path s Figure 8 Plot showing the high lighted monitored frequency The Monitored frequency can be toggled on or off by pressing the button If you are using the AOR bundled version of MUFsight available with certain AOR RS 232 control software you can use the monitor fr
22. to obtain the monitoring frequency without having to type it 1n On line context sensitive help The full Windows hypertext help system is used to provide you with the information you need wherever you are in the program In addition to the help menu all dialogs have a help push button which calls up information for that dialog You can also highlight individual menu options using the arrow keys and obtain help on them by pressing lt F1 gt 74 Introduction MUFsight Propagation Prediction PROPAGATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE The propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere is affected by the presence of matter The electromagnetic waves can be subject to absorption reflection or refraction depending on the nature of the matter with which the waves interact HF radio waves are principally affected by the properties of the part of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere This is the region lying between 80 and 700 km above the earth s surface and derives its name from the fact that the matter in this region is subject to ionisation by UV light incident from the sun producing free electrons and ions The electron density is chiefly responsible for influencing the propagation of radio waves and it varies as a function of altitude There are local minima in electron density which mark the interfaces of layers identified by the letters D E F1 and F2 These regions have different effects on the propagation of HF radio signals due to
23. usable frequency by calculating the E layer critical screening frequency MUFSight combines fast and established prediction algorithms with a flexible and easy to use graphic interface Program Highlights Microsoft Windows program MUFsight is a Windows compatible program that has been developed in C using Borland s Object Windows Library for a natural look and feel supporting sophisticated features It is compatible with both Windows 3 x and Windows 95 HF Propagation Prediction MUFsight implements the much respected MINIMUF algorithm to predict HF radio propagation conditions for anywhere in the world Frequency range is 1 150MH7z for full coverage of the HF band even at times of high solar flux Map projections Predictions can be plotted on either a cylindrical or spherical world map projection as colour coded shading You can trace values simply by positioning your mouse on the display lat long bearing and great circle path are all traced Select between MUF and LUF plots from the toolbar Single point predictions Double click anywhere on the map for a full 24 hour analysis of MUF and LUF figures for the selected geographical location Home Location Set your geographical home location simply by entering the latitude and longitude Monitoring Frequency Choose a monitoring frequency and highlight those parts of the world that should be audible at the current time You can DDE query your AOR RS 232 radio control software
24. uso 3 0 Iso 3 0 __ Cancel Help Save to INI A The software reads data direct from the radio so you should run the filter calibration routine after fitting new filters before saving the filter values to file 35 Setup menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Data Base Directory The optional AOR Data Base Toolkit is installed separately from AR7030 Tuner and so you need to set the directory you used for the data base to enable the program to launch data base applications You just need to type in the appropriate directory name into the dialog that is displayed For example Location of AOR Data Base Toolkit Directory Cancel The directory name you choose is stored in the initial values INP file so you only need to do this once The directory name you type in must be exactly the same as that chosen when installing the data base Communications Ya The SetuplCommunications command opens the Communications dialog box which allows you to select the serial port you want to use for bi directional RS 232 communications with your radio See the section on setting up the software for descriptions of the dialogs You can select the serial port you want to use COM1 to COMA4 36 Setup menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows TOOLS MENU OPTIONS This menu provides a number of tools for tuning the radio including search scan and map based tuning from data imported from
25. you move your mouse over any of the tool bar buttons a line of text is displayed on the status bar in place of the copyright notice on the bottom edge of the main window telling you what the button does Status display Next to the tool bar push buttons is a status display showing the current frequency and mode the radio is tuned to Status bar Along the bottom edge of the window is a copyright notice which can be used to display a dialog showing the version of the program Click on the or symbol to display the dialog Desktop The main part of the window the application s desktop is used to display files of memory data in individual windows A specially developed style of list box is used for display and provides a flexible and fast way to handle data Data windows can be reduced to icons and appear along the bottom edge of the desktop as minimised windows You must set up RS 232 communication from your computer before starting to use AR7030 Tuner using the instructions given in the next section Setting up AR7030 Tuner uses an RS 232 serial port on your computer to send instructions to the radio You must have a suitable interface unit to make the physical connection between the D type connector on your computer to the remote control port on your radio Full details of the connection required including the pin configuration is given in Section 5 15 Computer Control socket of the AR7030 Operating Manual To setup th
26. you paste so you can paste many times e The Clipboard holds only one entry so each time you copy the previously cut or copied entry is replaced e To move text or an object use EditlCut followed by EditlPaste e To reverse the effect of this command choose EditlUndo The Copy command is not available if no text objects or records are selected EditlPaste orl My i Inserts text an object or a record from the Clipboard to the location you specify in the active window This command inserts data previously put on the Clipboard by EditlCut EditlCopy or another application Text appears at the insertion point Objects appear in the active window e The contents of the Clipboard are not deleted when you paste so you can paste many times e To reverse the effect of this command choose EditlUndo You cannot Undo a Paste operation if you are pasting a record in the Table Records window The Paste command is not available if the Clipboard is empty or when what is on the Clipboard cannot be pasted into the active window EditlDelete Removes the selected text or object without placing it on the Clipboard e To reverse the effect of this command choose EditlUndo e To remove text or an object and place it on the Clipboard for later pasting choose EditiCut As long as you do not cut or copy any other text the contents of the Clipboard remains intact The Delete command is not available if no text or objects are sele
27. 0 pixel and 256 colours Windows 95 operating system Windows NT is not currently supported 8M byte of system memory 640k bytes of base DOS memory 16M bytes highly recommended if running tuner and data base applications together Microsoft mouse or equivalent strongly recommended at least 10M bytes of free hard disk space at least 4 3M bytes for both tuner applications and 5 3M bytes for data base applications At least two RS 232 serial ports one for mouse if used highly recommended Windows compatible printer optional either or AOR AR3030 general coverage HF receiver with appropriate RS 232 cabling not supplied AOR AR7030 high dynamic range general coverage receiver with appropriate RS 232 cabling not supplied 7 Minimum System Requirements INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE In this manual it is assumed that you are familiar with Microsoft Windows 95 and the hardware you are using with your computer If you need further information on using specific Windows features consult your Microsoft Windows help system You have two sets of distribution floppy disks one for the tuner applications one for the AOR Data Base Toolkit You will need to install each set onto your system following the instructions below First a note about the copy protection scheme used with the distribution disks Copy Protection A AOR DATA MASTER is copy protected The protection does not use a dongle or other cumberso
28. AA A T MHz tuning Attenuator Main tuning Mode Volume Power knob knob switch knob switch 23 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows MHz Tuning knob You select the MHz band you want to receive using this control knob Click repeatedly on the right side of the knob until the LED lock light is lit to increase the MHz value Click on the left side in a similar way to reduce the MHz value You are tuning the radio in 1 MHz increments with this control This neatly emulates the old style Wadley loop PLL system that was popular in the 1970 s You can see what MHz value the radio is currently set to in the MHz display This rotates round as you click on the knob Main tuning knob The main tuning knob controls the kHz value the radio is tuned to ie 0 999 kHz Use the MHz tuning knob to change the MHz value To change the radio s frequency click repeatedly on the right side of the main knob to increase frequency in steps of 5 kHz or click on the left side to decrease frequency You can also click on the right or left sides of the kHz display to tune in 50 kHz steps for speed tuning The main knob and kHz display are animated as you tune the radio Fine tuning knob The fine tuning knob gives you fine control of the received frequency by tuning in 1 kHz steps To increment the frequency repeatedly click on the right side of the fine tuning knob To decrement the frequency click on the left The fine tuning main
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30. LL push button to select the next filter and on the LL push button to select the previous one The current bandwidth setting is shown on the status display Mode and A B push buttons Use these push buttons to select a mode from those available You can also switch between the two VFOs using the ave push button Keypad The keypad can be used to enter a frequency directly into the radio You can either enter the frequency in kHz or MHz For example to enter the 6 045 MHz type 6 0 4 5 MHz or 6 0 4 5 KHz If you want to back space and correct an incorrect digit click on the ENTY BS push button before re entering the digit It is also possible to select a broadcasting meter band by entering the wavelength in metres and clicking on mtr The meter bands are as follows Metre Band Frequency kHz Mode 26 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows 160 1907 5 CW 120 2300 0 AM 90 3200 0 AM 80 3500 0 LSB 75 3900 0 AM 60 4750 0 AM 49 5950 0 AM 41 7100 0 AM 40 7000 0 LSB 31 9500 0 AM 30 10100 0 USB 25 11650 0 AM 21 13600 0 AM 20 14000 0 USB 19 15100 0 AM 17 18068 0 USB 16 17550 0 AM 15 21000 0 USB 13 21450 0 AM 12 24890 0 USB 11 26965 0 AM 10 28000 0 USB RF Gain push buttons It is possible to select the RF amplifier or 20 40 dB of attenuation using these push buttons The currently selected setting is indicated by th
31. NU OPTIONS The edit menu provides you with all the facilities you need to edit the data displayed inside the windows Most of the edit menu options work by copying cutting and pasting using Windows Clipboard You often need to highlight areas of text before using edit menu options It is possible to select an individual line simply by clicking on it If you want to select several lines at once you can select a block by clicking on the first line and shift clicking on the last click with the mouse while holding the fe SHIFT key down You can select several lines scattered throughout the file by control clicking on each clicking with the mouse while holding the fe CTRL key down g g y Cut The EditlCut command removes the selected items from the active window and places the text in the Clipboard Choose EditlPaste to paste the cut text into another window or into another part of the same window The text remains selected in the clipboard and can be pasted several times Copy The EditlCopy command leaves the selected items intact and places an exact copy of them in the Clipboard To paste the copied text into another document choose EditlPaste Paste The EditlPaste command inserts the text currently in the Clipboard into the current window at the cursor position Clear The EditlClear command removes the selected items and leaves blank lines in their place The text is not placed in the Clipboard A Data cannot be
32. THESE FILES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES If these files are deleted BATA MASTER will not run 4 If you are using a backup utility make sure that the two hidden files are not backed up When restored the copy protection scheme may not be able to validate the installation and BATA MASTER will not run Most backup utilities do not touch these files because they have the hidden system and read only attributes set The two copy protection files also do not have the archive bit set so you should be able to exclude them from backups by setting up your backup software to ignore files without an archive bit Remember it is not the backup but the restore that can cause problems 5 The d option of the PC Kwik disk cache software from Multisoft Corporation is not compatible with the copy protection scheme and should be temporarily disabled when installing BATA MASTE Ror moving the token HyperCache also affects the copy protection scheme in the same way because of non standard methods of accessing the floppy disk drive Again it should be temporarily disabled but both caches may be used at other times 6 The copy protection scheme is compatible with disk drives compressed with SuperStor Stacker and DoubleSpace However you should temporarily remove the token from the hard disk when installing one of these compression utilities because the protection will appear invalid when the drives are compressed The disk compression utilities warn you of this
33. Tool bar Underneath the main menu is the tool bar This contains a number of push buttons which provide rapid access to the most frequently used menu options If you move your mouse over any of the tool bar buttons a line of text is displayed on the status bar in place of the copyright notice on the bottom edge of the main window telling you what the button does Status display Next to the tool bar push buttons is a status display showing the current frequency and mode the radio is tuned to Status bar Along the bottom edge of the window is a copyright notice which can be used to a a dialog showing the version of the program Click on the or symbol to display the dialog 48 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Desktop The main part of the window the application s desktop is used to display files of memory data in individual windows A specially developed style of list box is used for display and provides a flexible and fast way to handle data Data windows can be reduced to icons and appear along the bottom edge of the desktop as minimised windows You must set up RS 232 communication from your computer before starting to use AR3030 Tuner using the instructions given in the next section Setting up AR3030 Tuner uses an RS 232 serial port on your computer to send instructions to the radio You must have a suitable interface unit to make the physical connection between the D type connector on your
34. a virtual AR3030 on your PC The Front Panel window is displayed whenever you are using the software The following controls are provided POWER Exit from the program does not switch off power from radio lt mode gt Step through available modes backwards or forwards BW Select bandwidth NWR NOR AGC Select agc SLOW FAST TONE Select tone HIGH LOW ATT Select attenuator off 10dB 20dB MEMO Toggle memory mode Min Memory in Keypad Keypad frequency entry with MTR band entry Tuning knob Tuning tool To use the front panel window simply single click with your mouse on the active controls just as you would if you were using the radio directly Sections 5 and 6 of the AR3030 Ogerating anual will help you operate the Front Panel window since those controls that can be duplicated by RS 232 commands are supported in software The radio can be tuned continuously in steps using the Tune Tool which is obtained by clicking on the tuning knob The tuning tool looks like AR3030 Tuning Tool x Oo imm You can tune up or down in frequency steps with the size shown in the list box in the middle of the tool Simply click on the gt or lt push buttons with your mouse to change frequency You can remove the tuning control by closing the dialog 51 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Memory operation from the software front panel is very similar to the actual radio To review individual memor
35. and the angle of incidence of the radio waves on the ionosphere The height of the layers and the density of electrons is a function of the amount of ionising radiation from the sun This radiation is from the near constant background solar flux and increased additional activity associated with sun spots The amount of ionisation therefore depends on the time of day and the season at a particular location and the level of sun spot activity The electron density directly above a particular location increases after dawn reaches a peak just after midday and decays away again as dusk approaches to stay at a low level during the night MUFSight determines the usable frequencies by modeling the propagation properties of the F layers for the maximum usable frequency and the properties of the E layer for the lowest usable frequency knowing the ionisation conditions from the date time of day and sun spot number There are however other processes occurring in the ionosphere that are in general too difficult or impossible to predict involving random localised changes in ion density These include disturbances in the ionosphere due to shear winds and the interaction of the solar wind and magnetic field of the sun with the ionosphere The sporadic regions of ionised matter which result can have an influence on the underlying propagation conditions By their nature these effects cannot be included in a prediction model However the theoretical calculations of
36. are for descriptions of the dialogs You can select the serial port you want to use COM1 to COMA and the baud rate A You must make sure that the RS 232 parameters set in the radio EXACTLY match those selected in the software 61 Setup menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows TOOLS MENU OPTIONS This menu provides a number of tools for tuning the radio including search scan and map based tuning from data imported from the AOR data base Maps This powerful feature of the program provides a link between the AOR data base and software control of your radio Using the map display you can read text reports from the AOR data base plot individual transmitter sites and tune the radio from the mouse just by clicking on a TX site Further details are given in the MAPS section of this manual Scan Operation Scan allows you to review selected frequencies in a memory file by tuning to them automatically in sequence A Memory SCAN operation directly by the radio is not supported by the RS 232 command set You need to have a memory file MEM open in the desktop and some memory channels selected before you begin a scan To select channels you can either select a continuous block of data by clicking on the first line then again on the last line with the 1 SHIFT key held down alternatively you can select a number of lines that are not in a block by single clicking on each with the 1 CNTRL key held down Once you hav
37. ase table Speed Filter Indicates whether the search will take advantage of a Speed Filter AOR Data Base Toolkit automatically uses Speed Filters whenever possible Find push button Finds the next occurrence of the search value Close push button Closes the dialog box leaving the record pointer where it was after the last Find Advanced gt gt push button The Scope panel gives you options for specifying the scope of the operation This panel is described in the Scope Panel section EditlReplace Replaces the value in a field with a value that you specify for one or more records in a table Use TablelReplace Records to change the data in a field You can choose any type of field however the replacement value must have the same data type as the field you choose When you use TablelReplace Records to change data the changes appear in the Table Records window immediately The replace dialog looks like 95 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit If you provide a scope by using the Scope panel data is replaced when the value in the field meets the set of criteria that you specify Find What Enter the text or value you want to find You can specify any printable character including spaces For example you could search for records where the ID field equals Radio Havana You do not have to enter the precise value you are searching for You can enter the beginning of a phrase such as Radio to f
38. cesscecseececesceecseeecesseeesseeeesaes 105 LISTENERS LOG BOOK iis cidad 106 Add Button esac eet E EE eerie acs a De BS 106 Pack UO ei e a ON Pi Ned Toned A EN SSM ta E EE 107 Close Bit OM indi 107 Help Bitter is 107 HF BROADCASTERS FORM 0 cccccccccccccsccessseceessecesssecesssecesseeessseecsseees 108 5 Contents AOR DATA MASTER for Windows Add B tton se sata 108 Report Button ti 109 What s on Button cuidadas 110 Close Button id 110 Help Butt is 110 HF UTILITIES FORM 000 Gi eB A a neds es 112 A A O N a 112 Report BUON ti AA A A 113 Close Bulli ac 113 E R A PAR 113 VHF UHF FORME aa Bass eae a o e Bs 114 Add Button A ciptia stig bees sasede al cac RADAR 114 Report But A A O 114 Close Butt A ae eae ees 114 Help But e aes Gah ia 115 BRITISH ISLES PLACE NAMES FORM oooccoccconccononnncncnnnancnccnonnnncnnonnanonccnnns 116 Add B tton ca ins 116 Pack BU tlm ies atar oia 117 Close Button A a ued a eae QoS 117 Help Button EDEN epee Ai eee aan 117 WORLD PLACE NAMES FORM 000 0 ccccccccceccccccessscceceessececeesssceeeesssseeeceees 118 Add Button O A ee IO do a ee 118 Pack Button saa dase Git ats aa 119 Close BUON esa sc esse ci aaa Gece 119 Help Button ci io 119 6 Contents AOR DATA MASTER for Windows MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS This software requires the following minimum requirements of your PC system Pentium P60 PC processor or higher Colour graphics display with at least 800 x 60
39. ck by clicking on the first line and shift clicking on the last click with the mouse while holding the a SHIFT key down You can select several lines scattered throughout the file a PS on each clicking with the mouse while holding the CTRL key down Cut The EditlCut command removes the selected items from the active window and places the text in the Clipboard Choose EditlPaste to paste the cut text into another window or into another part of the same window The text remains selected in the clipboard and can be pasted several times Copy The EditICopy command leaves the selected items intact and places an exact copy of them in the Clipboard To paste the copied text into another document choose EditlPaste Paste The EditlPaste command inserts the text currently in the Clipboard into the current window at the cursor position Clear The EditlClear command removes the selected items and leaves blank lines in their place The text is not placed in the Clipboard A Data cannot be recovered once it has been cleared 57 Edit menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Delete The EditIDelete command deletes the currently selected items from the current window removing it completely The text is not placed in the Clipboard A Data cannot be recovered once it has been deleted Add Item The EditlAdd Item option allows you to add a new item of data just below the currently selected item cloaca Te tid
40. computer to the remote control port on your radio Full details of the connection required including the pin configuration is given in Section 7 Computer Control RS 232C of the AR3030 Operating Manuat Setting up is a two step process which involves setting up the software then selecting RS 232 operation from the AR3030 s front panel To setup the software Once you have made the physical connection and launched AR3030 Tuner you will need to use the Setup Communications dialog to configure the serial port used by AR3030 Tuner for your radio AR3030 Communications Settings x Connection Baudrate A 1 C4800 9600 comi You can select the baud rate and serial port on your PC from the dialog shown above Select the PC serial port configuration you want and click on the OK push button to continue The parameters you select are stored in the AR3030 INI initial values file so that they can be reused next time you run AR3030 Tuner To setup the radio 49 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows With the radio switched ON type in 4 8 0 0 ENT or 9 6 0 0 ENT into the AR3030 s keypad you should use the same baud rate you selected in software Your choice will be effective until you exit from the program or switch the radio OFF You will need to setup the radio in this way EVERY TIME you use the software because the AR3030 must be in REMOTE mode for RS 232 control to work Once you
41. ct a value in the range 1 10s per channel before starting the scan To begin the scan click on the Start push button To pause on an active channel click on Stop and to resume the scan click on Start again 37 Tools menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Click on the Close push button to stop the scan and return to normal operation ARR automatically tunes the receiver through all frequencies between two specific limits looking for active frequencies Scan recalls specific spot frequencies which have been stored into a memory file Search Operation Search allows you to tune continuously between two frequency limits to review signal activity in bands The following dialog is opened when you begin a search Search Operation x VFO Lower wz DE Frequency San Sa Frequency Step Size 0 5 al Mode uss FE Load Dwell Time 1 Save 1s tf gt 10s Spectrum Help Close You need to specify a lower and upper VFO frequency a step size mode and dwell time before you start The step size allows you to align tuning with the channel spacing used by the radio services you are listening to eg 5 kHz for HF broadcasts 9 kHz for MW AM in Europe 10 kHz for MW AM in North America The dwell time is selected using a scroll bar you can choose any value in the range 1 10s per tuning step If you want a spectrum display press the Spectrum push button BEFORE starting the search A separate w
42. cted 92 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit EditlSelect All Selects all the text or objects in the active editing area Once text or objects are selected you can cut or copy them to the Clipboard Once the Clipboard contains text or an object such as an OLE picture you can paste it elsewhere using EditlPaste To reverse the effect of this command click outside the editing area The Select All command is not available if the editing area contains no text or objects Form Menu The Form menu contains options for navigating through AOR Data Base Toolkit tables and manipulating whole records FormlFind Ne LE Finds the specified text or value in the selected field Use TablelFind Records to search for a record in the Table Records window If a match is found the record pointer moves to the found record You can search on character numeric float date logical and memo fields LOGE RE Fina Hoods Find What Enter the text or value you want to find You can specify any printable character including spaces For example you could search for records where the ID field equals DLSDWW For text and memo fields you do not have to enter the precise value you are searching for You can enter the beginning of a phrase such as Radio to find all records beginning with the word Radio 93 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit To search for a value stored in another field
43. d mode of the radio direct from the desktop Tune x Frequency EEFE MHz Cancel Mode CW a USB Help LSB Use the Tune dialog to select the parameters you want and click on OK to accept or CANCEL to abort The RS 232 command needed to change the radio is sent and the status display on the tool bar updated when you press OK You can select the receiver s mode direct from the keyboard as follows Fe CW F2 ES USB l 3 LSB AM F6 SAM F6 F FM Fa F4 F5 F5 F7 Es FAX F8 Data Base Directory 60 Setup menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows The optional AOR Data Base Toolkit is installed separately from AR3030 Tuner and so you need to set the directory you used for the data base to enable the program to launch data base applications You just need to type in the appropriate directory name into the dialog that is displayed For example Location of AOR Data Base Toolkit Directory The directory name you choose is stored in the initial values INT file so you only need to do this once The directory name you type in must be exactly the same as that chosen when installing the data base Communications MA The Setupl Communications command opens the Communications dialog box which allows you to select the parameters of the serial port you want to use for bi directional RS 232 communications with your radio See the section on setting up the softw
44. data base You can extract reports from this data base with geographical data fused from the World Place Names data base These reports can be read by AOR radio control applications where supported HF Utilities OO ES AR alis ra Rec Del FREQ SERVICE MODE CALLSIGN STATION PLACE STATE a mM 5350 Jirrax FAX RON75 Alma Ata Meteo Z Alma Ata Kazakhstan 2 IT 79100 HFFAX FAX RCW79 Alma Ata Meteo Alma Ata Kazakhstan 3 I 99275 HFFAX FAX RXA79 Alma Ata Meteo Alma Ata Kazakhstan 4 TI 105700 HFFAX FAX RWH79 Alma Ata Meteo Alma Ata Kazakhstan 5 137070 HFFAX FAX RXA 77 Alma Ata Meteo Alma Ata Kazakhstan 6 I 33774 HFFAX FAX YMA 20 Ankara Meteo Ankara Turkey 7 T 67900 HFFAX FAX YMA 20 Ankara Meteo Ankara Turkey 8 IF 36570 HFFAX FAX RVZ73 Arkhangelsk Meteo Arkhangelsk Russia 9 77620 C HFFAX FAX RGH77 Arkhangelsk Meteo Arkhangelsk Russia 40 T 5347 0 HFFAX FAX RSW71 Arkhangesik Meteo Arkhangelsk Russia 41 8530 0 HF FAX SVA 4 Athens Radio Athens Greece a The layout and facilities provided with the HF Utilities form are similar to the HF Broadcasters form For details of the search facilities offered see the HF Broadcasters Form section of this manual Note the What s on feature is not supported with utility data Add Button arg A Ey i form push button adds a new record to the table at the current position To edit a new entry you simply type into the table that is display
45. e LED Rotary controls A selection of rotary controls are used to alter the IF gain setting passband shift BFO bass and treble tone controls and squelch settings To use a rotary control click on the right hand side of it to increase the value and on the left hand side to decrease the value Note that the BFO PBS and tone controls are centre zero whereas the squelch control is fully anti clockwise for minimum level and the IF gain is fully clockwise for maximum gain Main tuning The main tuning knob is used to tune the radio in steps The step size depends on where you click on the tuning knob as follows 27 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows I i pe 1 1 0 1 0 1 All step sizes shown above are in kHz Volume You can alter the volume of audio from the radio using this rotary control Click on the right hand side of the Volume control to increase the volume level and on the left hand side to decrease it 28 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows FILE MENU OPTIONS The file menu contains all the menus you need to work with files and manage memory data held on disk The content of each file is shown inside a data window on the desktop New po ee The FilelNew command opens a new untitled memory data window and makes it the active window AR7030 Tuner prompts you to name untitled documents when they are closed Open rE E The FilelOpen command displays the Open
46. e an AR7030 proceed to Part I If you are using an AR3030 proceed to Part IL 15 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Part I AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows 16 Introduction AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows INTRODUCTION Welcome to AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows This is a powerful RS 232 control application for the AR7030 high dynamic range general coverage receiver which forms part of the AOR BATA MASTER package This simple to use program lets you configure memory data tune the radio using personalities and import transmitter data from the AOR Data Base Toolkit overlaying it onto a world map for point and click tuning The program uses an RS 232 serial port to communicate with your radio and has these exciting features and more e Easy to use intuitive windowing system with tile and cascade You may have any number of memory data files of 100 channels as you wish disk space permitting e Comprehensive editing features for memory data including intelligent cut paste and line renumbering e On line context sensitive help You may obtain help from the main menu and in all dialogs Help is also available from the desktop simply by pressing the A F1 key e Tune your radio using a travel portable analogue desktop or digital desktop personality e Switch the radio ON OFF remotely via the RS 232 interface e Import text reports from the AOR Data Base Toolkit plot transmitter data on a spherical projection world map
47. e an expert dbase user and you want the maximum flexibility in editing expressions turn Safety Net off While Safety Net is on 103 Expression Builder AOR Data Base Toolkit You can only select elements from the Paste list rather than typing things directly into the Expression panel Each element is checked as it is entered Coloured placeholders indicate elements that need to be changed because of incorrect syntax When the letters Op are displayed this means that an operator is missing Yellow text indicates a constant or argument in a function and helps to clarify how the expression syntax is developing You can only insert between elements The Group and Undo push buttons are enabled When Safety Net is off You can still select and paste elements but you can also type things directly into the Expression panel The Group and Undo buttons are disabled You can cut copy and paste text directly into the Expression panel using the clipboard When you have finished constructing your expression you can click on the Evaluate push button to attempt to evaluate it If the syntax is correct the result is shown just below the Expression panel A few examples of simple expressions are given in the sections below Checking for equality and comparing field name constant where constant is normally enclosed in quotes field name gt constant field name lt constant field name lt gt constant where lt gt
48. e box informs you of the number of records in the table For Specifies a condition that restricts the operation to certain records For example the For clause REPORT 599 restricts operation of a command to records for which the REPORT field evaluates to the string 599 Expert dBase users can click Fa to create an expression in the Expression Builder While Specifies a condition and causes processing to continue as long as the condition is true Enter a condition that causes processing to continue up to a certain point For example if you are using a table indexed by company name the While clause REPORT lt gt 599 causes the command to process as long as the REPORT field does not evaluate to the string 599 Expert dBase users can click E to create an expression in the Expression Builder This differs from the For clause For skips over records that do not apply While stops when it finds a record that does not apply 102 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit EXPRESSION BUILDER The expression builder is a standard Visual dBase dialog that allows you to construct valid criteria for producing reports The dialog is opened whenever you click on the push button in forms The information that follows is based on the help that is provided with the dBase development system Build Expression x Expression Safety Net Urge Group Evaluate place Buxton Type your expression directly or choo
49. e cable and cause interference to reception All cable connections should be high quality for durability Full details of the connection required including the pin configuration is given in Section 5 15 Computer Control socket of the AR7030 Operating Manual No level shifting interface is required unlike other manufacturer s receivers you just connect a serial port of your computer directly to the radio Starting the program To launch AR7030 Tuner for Windows Select the AOR AR7030 Tuner shortcut from the AOR DATA MASTER option of the Programs menu on the task bar The AR7030 Tuner program should then appear on your screen The main window has a number of components as follows Renu jana al ratus Dig Leap Ereaghtoan BBE Ratio amp POS 6 4 kis BPO H H kHz T FAE 6 0 kHz EFO 0 4 kHz MEF Foi b a kiz p ok Mafio He Dkr Lande FAS 6 0 kHz Sk i 6 0 kHz RR FAS B A kHz Sh M FB 0 0 KH Fk A m bi mi pri FOS BL RHE H9 FAS 6 8 kHz S FOS 0 0 kHz 4 EA br r ce lu fi inlsed Winia smary Data ae Cee Simon Clica BA 1856 Pg Asasel Menu 19 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows The main menu provides access to all the features of the program and is located just below the top edge of the window Tool bar Underneath the main menu is the tool bar This contains a number of push buttons which provide rapid access to the most frequently used menu options If
50. e do 57 A O eh eons 57 COPS aid ei a ees 57 Pate o ai SDS EFDEE 57 3 Contents AOR DATA MASTER for Windows Cleafs PR EOE ER Pe ne a FEY OT Ne iO PP eR PEP err rio PER eee eS 57 Delete tact Siete Vata tdo coa 58 A A lh a SSR ses had 58 MA O hens ab cadet ae kaa 58 Ren mbhet di lid o cas 58 SETUP MENU OPTIONS 6 48 A BO Aw A A n eres rr enes 60 MAM sss estes as SEE N e occas to taco se KS SENSE DENE ENDE cones SERDTEEEE 60 Data Base Director Via A iad aah Roach A Ni 60 Communications a 61 TOOLS MENU OPTIONS 35553550555 5j cbs eo becdoass dadas 62 Mapsi cise eae ees a ad ida 62 SAO ales ee ed cde 62 Search Opera os alt ed de ln e oink os Weald aes a eae 63 Spectrum Display 1 a 65 HERTHA e o a 65 HF Broadcaster ici 65 Logbook usa raa age sha asd Sapte shasta Ede eee ecm eae as 66 WINDOW MENU OPTIONS 0 cccccccsscesscessceescecsseceseceeeeeeseecssecessseeeeeeseecsaeees 67 A A ae EA a a a a 67 TM ra 67 ATPASE TC ida 67 Close Al ain n iiin i a a een 67 MA a a A S 68 A 69 OVEN o e 69 Clear do HERI 69 A A A 69 Homes abridor dad ads 69 A 71 Vantage Points A ERA a 71 LOMA A A SO 71 Zoom A A a eo A 71 Antipodes dale 71 Rotate 90 degrees x ia as 71 Rotate 90 de ore iii aaa teadiienies 72 MUFsight Propagation Prediction ooooooo Error Bookmark not defined INTRODUCTION 0 ccc ccccccccccesceesseeeesneeeenes Error Bookmark not defined Program Highlights seerne Error Bookmark not defined PROPAGATION
51. e instructions From the Start button on the task bar Select the Run option and type A INSTALL EXE into the open dialog Press lt ENTER gt or click on the OK button to proceed You should obtain the window shown below on your screen This is the installation utility which will copy and install the DATA MASTER files to your hard disk AOR Data Master Install Of x Click on the Install push button to install AOR Data Master onto your system Three push buttons are provided inside the window You can abort the installation by clicking on the Quit push button or by pressing Q Alternatively to decompress and copy the program files onto your hard disk click on the Install push button or press T If you want to obtain help on the installation program you can click on the Help push button If you are proceeding with the installation you will be asked to type in the name of a directory on your hard disk for the program files you will need approximately 4 3M bytes of space The default directory name is C DATAMAS but you can change it by typing in an alternative into the dialog that is displayed 11 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Installation Directory What directory do you want to install AOR Data Master into ic DATAMAS Cancel OK The dialog looks like that shown above If you want to keep the default directo
52. e plotted a map first Clear This option blanks the map display so that you can plot a new map and overlay it with fresh data Setup This menu allows you to set your home geographical location for plotting on the map Home This dialog lets you select your home geographical location This is the location on the map that has a mie symbol plotted on it The Home Location dialog looks like Home Location Eg Latitude Longitude 69 Maps AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows You can enter the latitude longitude and a place name All geographical angles must be entered in decimal degrees eg 51 92 with Southern and Western values being negative The values you enter are stored in the initial values file so that they are reused next time the program is run 70 Maps AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows View This menu contains a variety of options for changing the map displayed in the window Vantage Point The vantage point is the geographical location on the spherical map projection which is in the centre of the field of view By default your home location is chosen as the vantage point You can select another vantage point using the Vantage Point dialog Latitude 51 92 South ve Longitude West ve Cancel Rotation Help Zoom You can enter the latitude longitude rotation angle and zoom factor for the vantage point All geographical angles must be entered in decimal degrees eg 51 92
53. e selected the channels in the memory window you want open the scan dialog from the main menu and they will appear in the Selected box as follows 62 Tools menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Scan Operation Eg Selected 00 10 570000 FAX Fast Nor Low 03 10 720000 FAX Fast Nor Low 04 10 865000 FAX Fast Nor Low 05 10 875000 FAX Fast Nor Low Stop 06 10 980000 FAX Fast Nor Low 07 10 997000 FAX Fast Nor Low cl 08 11 090000 FAX Fast Nor Low ese 09 11 122000 FAX Fast Nor Low 10 11 381000 FAX Fast Nor Low Help 11 11 420000 FAX Fast Nor Low 12 11 451000 LSB Fast Nor Low 13 11 455000 FAX Fast Nor Low y Dwell Time 1 1s aff gt 10s You can set the dwell time on each channel using the scroll bar to select a value in the range 1 10s per channel before starting the scan To begin the scan click on the Start push button To pause on an active channel click on Stop and to resume the scan click on Start again Click on the Close push button to stop the scan and return to normal operation A search automatically tunes the receiver through all frequencies between two specific limits looking for active frequencies Scan recalls specific spot frequencies which have been stored into a memory file Search Operation Search allows you to tune continuously between two frequency limits to review signal activity in bands The following dialog is opened when you begin a search Search Operation
54. e software First connect the radio and PC together and switch the AR7030 on Once you have launched AR7030 Tuner you will need to use the Setup Communications dialog to configure the serial port used by AR7030 Tuner for your radio 20 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows ARTO Cossurecaliens Sethe x Select the PC serial port configuration you want from the dialog and click on the OK push button to continue The parameters you select are stored in the AR7030 INI initial values file so that they can be reused next time you run AR7030 Tuner The required baud rate of 1200 bps is selected automatically Once you have setup your PC serial port for the radio you are using you can begin to use AR7030 Tuner Obtaining Help AR7030 Tuner has a extensive context sensitive help available at all times You can obtain help from the desktop simply by pressing a F1 or by selecting the Help option from the main menu Help is also provided from a push button in each dialog The help information that is provided is hypertext based and fully inter referenced for your convenience You can also access the SWL working aids from the help menu Comprehensive information is provided on the international bandplan regions 1 2 and 3 modulation propagation and foreign language recognition non English Travel Portable Personality This personality uses an attractive LCD style display and keypad to
55. ecord If you are using Form or Columnar layout selected by pressing I F2 you need to enter a value in the first field displayed or use arrow keys to bypass it If you press Enter on the first blank field the Add Records operation ends the new record is not added and the Table Records window closes If you enter data into an appended record and then move the insertion point past the end of the record another record is automatically appended TablelAdd Records automatically updates any open indexes while you append records if used Form Delete Current Record Marks the current record for deletion or removes the deletion mark from the current record This is not the same function as the Delete push button in the form which will physically remove ALL records that are marked for deletion Form Delete Current Record does not permanently remove a record from a table when you delete it Instead the record is retained in the table but is marked for deletion Until records have been permanently removed from a table with the Delete push button you can recall deleted records undelete them FormiBlank Current Record Replaces data in the current record with blanks Use FormI Blank Current Record to replace the values of fields with blank or empty values FormIBlank Current Record is most useful for replacing logical float and numeric fields with true blank values which FormlReplace Records cannot do FormlReplace Records replace
56. ed When you add an entry the FREQ SERVICE PLACE STATION and COMMENT fields from the current record are carried over into the new record The name that you enter into the PLACE field in the HF Utilities data base must match the spelling and case you use in the World Place Names data base for the fusion of geographical data to work properly Normally place names in this data base includes the country or region separated with a comma you MUST use a comma somewhere in the PLACE field to avoid spurious geographical locations being associated with the record In the World Place Names data base only the place part of the name is significant but the STATE field helps to distinguish between place names in more than one country You can check to see if the geographical place name could be picked up using the arrow keys to move onto the next or previous record Ifthe place name could be found the details will be filled in automatically If 112 HF Utilities Form AOR Data Base Toolkit the place name could not be found you may need to exit from the Utilities data base and enter the place name into the World place names data base separately Example Buxton U K in the World Place Names data base will not match with BUXTON U K or buxton U K in the PLACE field in this data base Report Button Alt E Sa mM form push button opens the standard Expression Builder dialog which can be used to construct a valid dBase expression See the Ex
57. emulate a digital travel portable radio The personality looks like Signal LED gt isplay Travel Portable Personality FT EKERN gIGHAL Keypad Search There are several controls available Power push button 21 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Click the Power push button to close the Travel Portable personality You can open it again from the Personalities menu option on the desktop Manual Up Dn push buttons Click on these push buttons to step up or down in frequency The step size depends on the frequency you are using as follows LF 144 288 kHz 9 kHz MF 522 1611 kHz 9 kHz HF 3 30 MHz 5 kHz VHF gt 30 MHz 50 kHz where supported The step sizes are stored in the initial values file PORTABLE INI as follows steps 1f 9 mf 9 hf 5 vhf 50 If you need to change the step sizes eg for North America you can simply edit the PORTABLE INI file with a text editor such as Windows Notepad Note only integer frequency values in units of kHz are valid Signal LED This is lit when a signal that is stronger than 30 of S meter full scale deflection is received Keypad The keypad can be used to enter a frequency and tune the radio To tune the radio click on the required digits on the keypad and either AM or SNC for Synchronous AM You must enter the frequency in kHz For example to tune to 7260 kHz AM mode click 7 2 6 0 and AM If y
58. eports from this data base with geographical data fused from the World Place Names data base These reports can be read by AOR radio control applications where supported The HF Broadcasters form looks like ee HF Broadcasters olx HF Broadcasters Whats on Report Add A Close Help Rec Del STATION DATE PLACE 1631 7 All India Radio News Service 10 02 95 Delhi India 1632 All India Radio News Service 10 02 95 Delhi India 1633 All India Radio News Service 1841 95 Delhi India 1634 All India Radio News Service i ORD 1811395 Delhi India 1635 All india Radio News Service 18111195 Delhi India 4367 7 Araks Radio Agency 1300595 Yerevan Armenia 40 Army Broadcasting Station 26 01 92 CHINA Asia mM I Atlantic 252 18 08 90 Dublin Ireland a C i 926 Australian Armed Forces Radio 10 06 95 Camberra Australia 1214 TF Australian Armed Forces Radio 10 06 95 Canberra Australia v F2 You can obtain form views by pressing a F2 to select the desired format Add Button arg A ia A form push button adds a new record at the current position in the table To edit a new entry you simply type into the table that is displayed you can even re use records marked for deletion by typing into their fields and clearing the Del check box When you add an entry the STATION PLACE CLANDESTIN LANGUAGE and COMMENT fields from the current record are carried over into t
59. equency push button to DDE query the control software for the monitor frequency You do not have to type it in The standalone version of MUFsight does not support this feature A AOR RS 232 control software is available separately from AOR UK or your international AOR distributor MUFsight is supplied bundled with some packages ask your AOR dealer for details 82 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction PROGRAM CONTROLS The Toolbar 110 Ma E fa lomo HE The toolbar is the collection of buttons as shown above which control the operation of the application A particular control is activated by pressing the appropriate button The functions of the various buttons are described below ButtonAction Menu Equivalent Create new plot of usable Plotting Plot Usa ble Frequency frequency against world map Select cylindrical or azimuthal plot Plotting Projection Cylindrical Plotting Projection Azimuthal Selection of Maximum or Lowest Plotting Usa ble Frequency MUF usable frequency Plotting Usa ble Frequency LUF a Input parameters for calculations Set Up Input Parameters Selection of low medium and high Plotting Resolution Low resolution plot Plotting Resolution Medium Plotting Resolution High cia Query an AOR radio control Plotting Query Radio package for a frequency 83 Program controls MUFsight Propagation Prediction AOR bundled version
60. es 119 World Place Names Form
61. file extension and clicking on the Save push button The default filename is RESULTS RPT but any other suitable name can be selected What s on Button Alt G San is a special push button in the Broadcaster s form which opens a form dedicated to searching for broadcast stations active at specific times of the day You can use this facility with the HF Broadcasters data base to extract only those stations that are active for the particular time period you are interested in For example you can extract stations that on the air between 1200 and 1300 UTC and produce a text report suitable for use with AOR radio control programs for directly tuning the radio where supported r Aaa im Enter the start time earliest time active and stop time latest time active into the dialog and click on the Apply push button to produce the report Close Button This form push button closes the HF Broadcasters Form If the HF Broadcasters Form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button 110 HF Broadcasters Form AOR Data Base Toolkit This form push button opens this help file at the contents for HF Broadcasters 111 HF Broadcasters Form AOR Data Base Toolkit HF UTILITIES FORM The HF Utilities Form contains a list of beacons and HF FAX stations that can be heard on shortwave you can add any kind of data on utility stations that you wish to the supplied
62. ftware back onto the distribution floppy disk or between hard disks You may need to move the copy protection token back onto you original distribution disk in the following circumstances amp When installing disk compression software When upgrading your AOR software When moving the program to a new computer amp When returning the original disk to your AOR distributor for updates etc To transfer the token onto the distribution floppy disk run the Copy Protection Move utility Copy Protection Move When you have done this the following window is displayed H re ADA cape proleci n betetea jiria flea an yonr heed dak end thee orgel maciter Hosp ovr from ma siar Ha pag To transfer the token onto the distribution floppy disk click on the Move to master floppy push button If the token is already on the floppy disk you can transfer it to hard disk using the Move from master floppy push button You can use this utility to have copies of the program on several computers at once however the program will only work on the machine that has the copy protection token on it This AOR software product comes with a single license and two tokens Contact your AOR dealer to obtain additional copies of the software AOR Data Base TOOLKI Part VI AOR Data Base Toolkit 89 World Place Names Form AOR Data Base Toolkit HARNESS APPLICATION The AOR Data Base Toolkit uses compiled executab
63. have setup your PC serial port for the radio you are using you can begin to use AR3030 Tuner A The RS 232 parameters you select from the dialog must EXACTLY match those setup in the radio If they are different you will get unstable behaviour when using the program or no apparent operation at all Obtaining Help AR3030 Tuner has a extensive context sensitive help available at all times You can obtain help from the desktop simply by pressing A F1 or by selecting the Help option from the main menu Help is also provided from a push button in each dialog The help information that is provided is hypertext based and fully inter referenced for your convenience You can also access the SWL working aids from the help menu Comprehensive information is provided on the international bandplan regions 1 2 and 3 modulation propagation and foreign language recognition non English Front Panel Power switch Mode select push buttons Frequency On MEMO PASS Min SI aco EJ EH Ea ECEIVI Tuning knob Keypad 50 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows The Front Panel window is an accurate representation in software of the AR3030 s own front panel so you can tune the radio in a natural way even through you are using software A continuous needle type s meter display is provided which exactly matches that on the radio Most of the radio s front panel controls are available under software control giving you
64. he new record The date field is filled in using your PC s system clock The name that you enter into the PLACE field in the HF Broadcasters data base must match the spelling and case you use in the World Place Names data base for the fusion of geographical data to work properly Normally place names in this data base includes the country or region separated with a comma you MUST use a comma somewhere in the PLACE field to avoid spurious geographical locations being associated with the record In the World Place Names data base only the place part of the name is significant but the STATE field helps to distinguish between place 108 HF Broadcasters Form AOR Data Base Toolkit names in more than one country You can check to see if the geographical place name could be picked up using the arrow keys to move onto the next or previous record If the place name could be found the details will be filled in automatically If the place name could not be found you may need to exit from the Broadcaster s data base and enter the place name into the World place names data base separately Example Buxton U K in the World Place Names data base will not match with BUXTON U K or buxton U K in the PLACE field in this data base Report Button EY ia W form push button opens the standard Expression Builder dialog which can be used to construct a valid dBase expression See the Expression Builder section of this manual for further detail
65. help file at the contents page Fl is the keyboard accelerated equivalent Shows About dialog box 85 Program controls GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS MUF Maximum Usable Frequency the highest possible frequency for communication between home location and DX location LUF Lowest Usable Frequency the lowest possible frequency possible for communication between home location and DX location Bearing The angle between north and the great circle connecting the home location and the DX site Great Circle Path The shortest path between two points on a sphere i e the route that is close to that taken by a radio wave bouncing from the atmosphere and the ground Short and Long Path Refers to the path between two points taking the great circle route short path or the path between two points traveling the opposite direction around the world long path Sun Spot Number The Zurich smoothed mean sun spot number related to the 10 7cm solar flux by the equation Solar Flux 63 75 0 7233 SSN 0 00089 SSN2 Acknowledgment This program uses data placed in the public domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio Riveria Original coordinate data was created by the Central Intelligence Agency GLOSSARY AND DEFINITIONS Part V Moving Copy Protection 87 Moving Copy Protection MOVING COPY PROTECTION A simple utility has been provided so you can move the copy protection token that is installed by your AOR so
66. hical data to transmitter data To add a new geographical location you just need to type in the place name latitude and longitude into a new record Latitude and longitude values are given as degrees and minutes with N North S South E East and W West eg 51 55N 2 5W means 51 degrees 55 minutes North 2 degrees and 5 minutes West ey Del PLACE A bos cary TP isto Langley ima BH RW im ERS ate Abro EPiSH ary T dim E JAP TO ian EW 20a TO dress TIM ai Ese er E T ieii EIH IS TE gen MAH Pat a D irie miN Jaw Y imr EEH Jew M ibng SHH i Sud up Fo comngion Spann ZIP chal DH TEN M h oH OT ime EH Tw Pasa HA TP ee SEH 1 KE CPP bim Bisel EFH HW FF bha BH IWE The records in the British Isles Place Names data base are listed in alphabetical order hence the irregular records numbering The table is re sorted as you add new records Add Button arg A Ta This form push button adds a new record to the table at the current position The name that you enter into the PLACE field in the station data bases must exactly match the spelling and case you use here for the fusion of geographical data to work properly Example Buxton in this data base will not match with BUXTON or buxton in the station data bases 116 British Isles Place Names Form AOR Data Base Toolkit Pack Button Alt lt p Vi form push button permanently removes all records from the logbook that are marked f
67. ind all records beginning with the word Radio To search for a value stored in another field use parentheses in the Find What text box AOR Data Base Toolkit searches the field specified in Located in Field for the value that the expression evaluates to AOR Data Base Toolkit searches for records where the selected field matches the value of another field in the same record For example you could search for records where the ID field equals the COMMENT field by selecting ID in the Located in Field list and specifying COMMENT in the Find What text box Replace With Specifies the value that AOR Data Base Toolkit replaces the value of the specified field with Enter the replacement value in the text box e The length of the new value must not exceed the field width Otherwise the data in the field is replaced with an approximation to the new value in scientific notation if it will fit e Like the Find What text box you can specify a value stored in another field by surrounding the expression with parenthesis Located in Field Choose the field to replace data in Search Rules Defines the search parameters These options are available for AOR Data Base Toolkit character and memo fields Standard Searches for records whose field begins with or matches the Find What value Exact Length 96 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit Searches for records whose field contains exactly the Find What value including it
68. indow is then used to display the spectrum which is the mean signal level found on each frequency step See the section below for details of the Spectrum Display window If you want to save the search parameters you have entered for re use later click on the Save push button to open a standard File Save As dialog To load a set of search parameters saved earlier click on the Load push button The lower frequency upper frequency mode and chosen step size are stored in a PBS file on disk Note these push buttons are only active when not actually doing a search To begin a search press the Start push button To pause on an active frequency press Stop push button and Start again to resume Click on Close to stop searching and return to normal operation A automatically tunes the receiver through all frequencies between two specific limits looking for active frequencies Scan recalls specific spot frequencies which have been stored into a memory file Spectrum Display 38 Tools menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows The spectrum window looks like 11 5 i buks ire 12015000 Mada d Sip 50 The display shows the signal level on each active frequency found A maximum of 400 signal traces can be shown on the display although the thickness of each trace depends on the number of tuning steps in the search If you have a large number of tuning steps the traces will be thin if you have a small number the traces will appear
69. isk If the file is unnamed the FilelSave As dialog box is displayed so you can name the file and choose where it is to be saved Save As 53 File menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows The FilelSave As command allows you to save a file under a new name or in a new location on disk The command displays the standard Save As dialog box You can enter the new file name including the drive and directory Send to RX Ex Ba The FilelSend to RX command transfer the contents of the current window to your radio using RS 232 commands If you are sending memory data all channels in the radio will be cleared before the data is sent This ensures that the data stored in the radio is exactly the same as that displayed in the memory data window You can use the following dialog to abort sending data by simply clicking on the abort push button Abort Click on cancel to abort A Data in your radio will be overwritten Get from RX EE The FilelGet from RX command gets a file of data from the radio and places it in the currently active window You should open a new window before getting new data if you do not want to overwrite the current window You can abort this operation in the same way as you can for sending data simply click on the Abort push button in the dialog that is displayed A Data in the current window will be overwritten Print El The FilelPrint command prints the content
70. lassic Analogue Desktop Personality ooonooonnnnnnncninccinocaconcconnconnonnncconocnnos 23 Digital Desktop Personality ooooooonnnncinnninonnconnnonnnonanccnnoconnnnnn nono nono nono nncnnos 25 FILE MENTCOETON Sa oT oto 29 INQ NA 29 A O 29 EN 29 a do eto bea cod el 29 SIS dd 29 SONG A E IO 30 A O es 30 A A tunes sBazaa eds BEES LEES saa al FE uaa 30 P int SS CCUG sco 6 is sss sa cease ies sa Leesa eR as aa 30 SEN ME rna eel Rl ea O on eee oe 31 Ea nA RSE RRA RENEE OP OEE OE RRC RPT REO TE SENERE KERES EAI REDE ARS 31 EDIT MENU OPTIONS sad hint geder en rele Da e AOS 32 A A a ERE NE DERE es Sea aaa ae a BE BENS a aS 32 181 A Ae ent SER e o SE DERNE 32 PASC isc riche ea hte E AEA E R REE 32 el Cer Rg ae Al RAT SES BENE LERET tr ee SEES Ea NT ORO gy emery AP NT A os eee Peer 32 Dele iS 32 A O A 33 O tics cas ennen ventana ren herren eae eae 33 Ren mber dd e dl o o es 33 SETUP MENU OPTTO NS 34 O a a a A RACED 34 A N 34 Power Om Resta as 35 e 35 O A eaten eae 35 Data Base Directory iis Ake LS 36 Communications 36 TOOLS MENU OPTIONS ccccccccesssesscessseessecesscseseeeseecsseceseeeeseeessesssseeeeeees 37 2 Contents AOR DATA MASTER for Windows Mapsscinn sit isi ahah ane eee 37 Scan CER AUN ONE 35 5d 5 as ass O a ieee 37 Search Operation 38 Spectrum Display 2 ss ides ord cake cine latiacsia na nee tea ened 38 HE TAI tia a 39 HF Broadcaster A Mie RnR LA EA 39 Lorbo0k aii E oi ias 39 WINDOW
71. le Borland Visual dBase applications distributed under the conditions of the Borland license The information included in this manual and included in the on line help is based on that provided by Borland for the Visual dBase system Each AOR Data Base Toolkit form has its own controls but a harness application is also provided with supplies a number of editing and record maintenance features to enhance operation of the data base system The harness application has a menu and tool bar and displays the data base form on its desktop as follows Henu Toolbar Push betrons File Menu The File menu contains options for exiting and printing AOR Data Base Toolkit forms that are displayed on the harness dektop FilelClose This File menu option closes the current AOR Data Base Toolkit form and exits from the harness application FilelPrint j This File menu option prints the current form 90 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit FilelPrint Setup This File menu option allows you to setup your printer Edit Menu The Edit menu contains options for editing individual AOR Data Base Toolkit records EditlUndo Reverses the effect of the last typing or Clipboard operation Undo reverses the following editing operations Typing EditlCut EditlPaste you cannot Undo a record paste operation EditlDelete After you undo an edit the Undo menu command is replaced with Redo Redo restores the original edi
72. le command arranges all document windows side by side in a non overlapping pattern Arrange Icons The WindowlArrange Icons command arranges all iconised windows into rows along the bottom of the application s main window Close All The WindowlClose All command closes all document windows open in the application 40 Window menu options MAPS e i powerful feature of AR7030 Tuner available from the Tool menu allows you to plot a world map on a spherical projection and overlay it with transmitter data imported from the AOR data base The map window allows you to select any vantage point you want by default it is your home location Your home location is marked with a symbol and a place name which you can specify An example map display is shown below Map C PROJECT AR7030 1600 RPT AASE stoni FERadio Norway Intemational holm Swe er Rad tomus Tech Reo io wers E dio Austria Int Luxembourg LUZ nna Austria Franc Voice of Europ tal ordeno eA H jevo Vatican Radio Vatican City Vati gt EDeutsche Welle MALTA Europe _ gade ittusion elevision Tu The Maps window has its own menu which allows you to select the display options you want When you open the Maps window it is blank To start plotting a map either select ViewlVantage Point or right click on the window with your mouse to open the Vantage Point dialog Next open a report RPT file using the Overlay menu option
73. me devices however there are a few simple points that you may need to refer to Please read this section carefully AOR DATA MAST E Ris copy protected using a system which places a token on your hard disk when you install the program The program will only work on the hard disk you installed it to There is no dongle or key disk so once installed the program runs completely normally and you will not be inconvenienced unlike other schemes Specific points to remember 1 The distribution disk contains two tokens This means that you can install up to two complete copies of the software on separate machines at once You cannot transfer the program to another machine without first moving one of the tokens back onto the original distribution disk then re installing The tokens can easily be moved with the program that is provided Contact your AOR distributor if you need additional copies of the software 2 You should keep your original disks in a safe place away from strong magnetic fields high humidity or other environmental conditions that could damage them You will not be able to re install the software or move it to another machine without the distribution disks AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows 3 Two hidden files are copied to a hidden subdirectory of the DATA MASTER directory when you install the software These contain configuration information for the copy protection scheme and are normal DOS format files DO NOT DELETE
74. menu option sends a reset command to the radio to switch it on You should use this if only you have previously switched the AR7030 off via software A Since the AR7030 CPU is active even when switched off but with power still applied you do not need to switch the radio on before using this software it will do this for you Power Off This menu option can be used to switch off the AR7030 Power is removed from the RF circuits in the radio and the internal software is put into a nominally dormant state However the CPU in the radio remains active even though it is notionally switched off This means that is can still respond to some RS 232 commands from this software but will not tune of course It is possible to send and get memory data when the AR7030 is switched off A Since the AR7030 CPU is active even when switched off but with power still applied you do not need to switch the radio on before using this software it will do this for you Filters Use this menu option to list the filters that are fitted in your radio and save them to the initial values file The current filters are listed in the dialog that appears Click on the Save to INI push button to save the filter values in the AR7030 INI initial values file The values saved are used to label the displays used in the program Filters Fitted x 1 bw 2 0kHz uso 1 4 Iso 1 3 2 bw 5 4kHz uso 3 0 Iso 3 0 3 bw 6 6kHz uso 3 0 Iso 3 0 4 bw 9 5kHz
75. nitial values file so that they are reused next time the program is run 42 Introduction AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows View This menu contains a variety of options for changing the map displayed in the window Vantage Point The vantage point is the geographical location on the spherical map projection which is in the centre of the field of view By default your home location is chosen as the vantage point You can select another vantage point using the Vantage Point dialog FE Bodh ej Dk om wene vey Eset You can enter the latitude longitude rotation angle and zoom factor for the vantage point All geographical angles must be entered in decimal degrees eg 51 92 with Southern and Western values being negative Normally the rotation angle is 90 degrees but you can select another angle if you prefer Type in the values you require and click on OK to accept or Cancel to Abort Zoom In This option zooms in by a factor of x2 and re plots the transmitter data Zoom Out This option zooms out by a factor of x2 and re plots the transmitter data Antipodes This option rotates the map to the opposite side of the Earth Rotate 90 degrees This option rotates the map through 90 degrees of longitude Rotate 90 degrees This option rotates the map through 90 degrees of longitude 43 Introduction AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Part Il AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows 44 Introduction AOR
76. o File Ea C Hwi Age jen Pit Comment lack Metherlends Feran Hasi The dialog above is display when you select this menu option and the current VFO parameters copied into it A 40 character comment not downloadable is provided which allows you to identify the channel You can accept the parameters picked up from the radio or modify them using the dialog controls before clicking on OK If you are editing a list of frequencies the Next push button will update the current channel and move you on to the next in one operation This greatly speeds up the modification of lists Modify Item Ed The EditIModify Item opens a dialog which lets you alter the current item of data in the active window The dialog for modifying a channel is the same one for adding a channel Renumber The EditIRenumber menu option allows you to renumber the lines of data items so that they are in ascending order by channel number 58 Edit menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows You will need to use this option after editing using Clipboard or whenever the channels are not in the right order before sending the data to the radio 59 Edit menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows SETUP MENU OPTIONS This set of menu options will allow you to alter the setup of the AR3030 Tuner software and tune your radio Tune g The SetuplTune command opens a dialog box which allows you to set the frequency an
77. only Manually enter a monitor frequency Plotting Monitoring Frequency Get help on MUF sight The Menu Items File File Exit Quits the application Setup Set Up Input Parameters This option allows the parameters of date time sunspot number and path to be altered for the plotting of the usable frequencies Set Up Home Location Allows your home latitude and longitude to be selected and is stored automatically in the file MUFSIGHT INI which is read in each time the program is started Plotting Plotting Plot Usable Frequency This option is used to plot the usable frequencies for a set time date sunspot number and path against the world map The menu selection is equivalent to using the GO button from the toolbar The GO button is raised at the start of the program and pops out again whenever you have made a change to one or more of the plotting parameters Remember when the button is raised you are ready to re plot Plotting Query Radio This option is a powerful feature of MUFsight which allows you to integrate the program with your AOR radio control package AOR bundled version only A Windows Dynamic Data Exchange DDE link is used to query the radio control software for the current frequency This frequency then become the 84 Program controls MUFsight Propagation Prediction Plotting Plotting Plotting Plotting Plotting Plotting Plotting Plotting
78. or deletion A YOU CANNOT RECOVER DELETED RECORDS ONCE THE TABLE HAS BEEN PACKED Close Button This form push button closes the British Isles Place Names Form If the British Isles Place Names Form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button This form push button opens this help file at the contents for British Isles Place Names 117 British Isles Place Names Form AOR Data Base Toolkit WORLD PLACE NAMES FORM The World Place Names Form allows you to maintain and add to the list of over 6000 world place names that AOR Data Base Toolkit uses to key geographical data to transmitter data It is possible to add a new geographical location by typing in the place name country latitude and longitude World Place Names is used with the HF Broadcasters HF Utilities data bases and the VHF UHF data base Latitude and longitude values are given as degrees and minutes with N North S South E East and W West eg 5 26N 3 58W means 5 degrees 26 minutes North 3 degrees and 58 minutes West Mec Del PLATT STARE HAT Lom i FE Der hn be F F iei iT SM SME i UP hee Enkin EH ir i F himi Sen anh DE s F wmn iai TIn BME E F irr Teper am MNE P M diie bar Wan i erate Fara aa i BO ses Chad iim 03 M _ baza TH IE nea ue TH IW El D he uE gan une fi T m h t iiu hi ii M iii laah dun Mii mn P diis Plaga bdo Erin ja Oa iit HE a brad Bin TA mo aba Dees LAE Ban HL m D
79. ortunity to view the readme file for the AOR Data Base Toolkit but it is possible to view it at anytime by double clicking on its icon from the AOR DATA MASTER program group This file contains any last minute information that could not be included in the manual The dialog inviting you to view the file looks like Install Notification Would you like to view the README TXT file now If you want to view the readme file now click on Yes if not click on No to continue immediately When the installation process has completed successfully you should see the following message box Setup Notification Installation is now complete Click on OK and you should then see a box with all the AOR Data Base Toolkit icons in it as follows note the box may need resizing 14 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows EQ ADA Dets Bara othe Aa ae CE la Ham Fishi awm Pd pee How to Setup the Software There is a lot of software in the AOR DATA MASTER package but only the minimum of setting up is required If you have followed the instructions given so far you should now have tuner applications for the AR3030 and AR7030 MUFsight and the AOR Data Base Toolkit on your hard disk You now only need to setup the tuner application for the radio you are using so proceed to the relevant section of this manual and follow the instruction there before starting to use any of the software If you hav
80. ou make a mistake wait for 4 seconds and the display will return to the previous frequency entered 22 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Search Start Stop This is a simple band search which operates on the following bands 120m 90m 75m 60m 49m 41m 31m 25m 21m 19m 16m 15m 13m 11m The actual frequencies used are listed in the PORTABLE INI file as follows 120m band only shown 120m lower 2300 upper 2495 If you want to alter one of the frequencies you can edit PORTABLE INI with a text editor such as Windows Notepad Note only integer frequency values in units of kHz are valid Click on the Search Start Stop push button to begin a search The radio will tune up in frequency until it reaches the highest value for the band then it starts again from the bottom If you start outside one of the recognised search bands the radio will tune up until it reaches it then cycle round within The search will stop when the LED is lit by a received signal or you click on the Search Start Stop push button again to stop it Classic Analogue Desktop Personality This radio personality is a nostalgic echo of the way analogue radios were operated in the past It emulates an analogue desktop radio of the type available in the 1970 s but giving you the full RF performance of the 1990 s AR7030 The personality looks like S meter ing display Fine tuning kHz display J Analogue Desktop Personality A
81. our radio or get data from your radio and print it out e Display the spectrum when searching measure frequency and signal strength with your mouse e Access G4SGI SWL working aids on the subjects of foreign language recognition propagation modulation and the international bandplan e Convert your AR3030 Caacerta memory data to the format supported by AR3030 Tuner e Send memory files as e mail over the Internet through Microsoft Exchange A You have purchased a licence to install and operate a maximum of two copies of AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows 45 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows There are two copy protection tokens on the master disk See the section on copy protection for more details Acknowledgment This program uses geographical data placed in the public domain by Fred Pospeschil and Antonio Riveria Original coordinate data was created by the Central Intelligence Agency 46 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows GETTING STARTED RS 232 connection You must connect your radio to an RS 232 port of your computer before you can operate the software A screened cable with a minimum of 3 conductors is required for connecting the PC to the receiver A If screened cable is not used then digital noise may radiate from the conductors of the cable and cause interference to reception All cable connections should be high quality for durability Full details of the connection required incl
82. pression Builder section of this manual for further details Close Button This form push button closes the HF Utilities Form If the HF Utilities Form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button This form push button opens this help file at the contents for HF Utilities 113 HF Utilities Form AOR Data Base Toolkit VHF UHF FORM The VHF UHF Form contains a data base table with a variety of fields suitable for use with stations to be heard on VHF and above The British version also contains some medium wave broadcast data The international version includes a list of beacons as standard but it is possible to add data for any station type to the data base You can extract reports from this data base with geographical data fused from one of the Place Names data base the international version uses the World Place Names data base and the UK version uses the British Isles Place Names data base These reports can be read by AOR radio control applications where supported Ss Brite frier WF LHF Reo EN i ma A BIF Laisi a A e 15 15D REFEATEFHFM SREI 0 Gubterph ET jaz I pars Tze AEPEATEFHFM GEG Chelo mim 0 ax e pams 15175 REPEATEFHFM HRG Fleet Ei eN 0504 a fen 1 000 AEFEATEFHEM 553E London EE i F maes 1505 REPEATEFHF BRS Haro EOSIN 0 36E w TT iam 1510 REFEATEFHFM GE W polea BINO 1m az f pan 155 000 REFEATEFHFMA BHF Bunden EN Ji
83. r default it is your home location Your home location is marked with a symbol and a place name which you can specify An example map display is shown below t Map C PROJECT AR3030 1 600 RPT View Help o SRadio Canada Intematio Sacl AE St John Paris France ae e a FJEVoice of Europe A Pordenone Italy The Maps window has its own menu which allows you to select the display options you want When you open the Maps window it is blank To start plotting a map either select ViewlVantage Point or right click on the window with your mouse to open the Vantage Point dialog Next open a report RPT file using the Overlay menu option to overlay data base data on top of your map You can then tune simply by clicking on the transmitter symbols that are displayed 68 Maps AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows A simple system of symbols is used to indicate when there is more than one frequency active from the same site or when there is more than one transmitter at the same location The following symbols may appear just j to the left of the A symbol depending on the data available E when more than one frequency on the same TX when more than one transmitter at the same site The following menu options are provided from the Maps window File This menu allows you to select overlay options Overlay You can open a text format data base report RPT file using the standard Open dialog but you must hav
84. recovered once it has been cleared Delete The EditIDelete command deletes the currently selected items from the current window removing it completely The text is not placed in the Clipboard A Data cannot be recovered once it has been deleted 32 Edit menu options AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Add Item The EditlAdd Item option allows you to add a new item of data just below the currently selected item Add Channel 02 xi Frequency Mode Filter E T Lockout PBS kHz Squelch BFO kHz Comment Next The dialog above is display when you select this menu option and the current VFO parameters copied into it A 40 character comment not downloadable is provided which allows you to identify the channel You can accept the parameters picked up from the radio or modify them using the dialog controls before clicking on OK If you are editing a list of frequencies the Next push button will update the current channel and move you on to the next in one operation This greatly speeds up the modification of lists Modify Item The EditIModify Item opens a dialog which lets you alter the current item of data in the active window The dialog for modifying a channel is the same one for adding a channel Renumber The EditlRenumber menu option allows you to renumber the lines of data items so that they are in ascending order by channel number You will need to use this option
85. right click on the object with the mouse to open the OLE menu panel Select cut to remove the audio object and close the OLE window A Wave audio files in WAV format are quite large and you may start to consume a lot of disk space if you include audio with each logbook entry Real Audio format is useful for reducing the amount of disk space required only 60k bytes minute are consumed If you have Real Audio installed and the Real Audio encoder included on your system you can drag the encoded RA file onto the OLE window in the same was as you would for a WAV file Pack Button Alt fp E form push button permanently removes all records from the logbook that are marked for deletion A YOU CANNOT RECOVER DELETED RECORDS ONCE THE TABLE HAS BEEN PACKED Close Button This form push button closes the Logbook form If the Logbook form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button This form push button opens this help file at the contents for Listener s Logbook 107 Listener s Logbook AOR Data Base Toolkit HF BROADCASTERS FORM The HF Broadcasters Form contains a list of shortwave radio broadcasters mainly in English Standard search tools are enhanced by a What s on query which allows you to create a list of broadcasters active between specific times of the day eg you can find out What s on between 1400 and 1500 UTC You can extract r
86. rther details HF Broadcasters This option launches the HF Broadcasters data base application from the optional AOR Data Base Toolkit 65 Tools menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Logbook This menu option launches the Shortwave Listener s Logbook data base application from the optional AOR Data Base Toolkit 66 Tools menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows WINDOW MENU OPTIONS This menu allows you to change the way that windows are displayed on the AR3030 Tuner desktop A list of the files that are currently open is appended automatically to the bottom of the menu Cascade The WindowlCascade command arranges all document windows from the top left position of the application s main window so that the title bar of each is visible Tile The WindowlTile command arranges all document windows side by side in a non overlapping pattern Arrange Icons The WindowlArrange Icons command arranges all iconised windows into rows along the bottom of the application s main window Close All The WindowlClose All command closes all document windows open in the application 67 Window menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows MAPS e nis powerful feature of AR3030 Tuner available from the Tool menu allows you to plot a world map on a spherical projection and overlay it with transmitter data imported from the AOR data base The map window allows you to select any vantage point you want i
87. ry forthe BATA MASTER files just click on the OK push button If you want to change it you can type in an alternative name and then click on OK if the directory does not already exist it will be created Once you have selected a directory forthe DATA MASTER files they are decompressed and copied onto your system in a few moments the exact amount of time required depends on your computer speed W NOTE The installation program does not alter your Windows INI initial settings files it uses its own files When installation has completed you should see a box with all the DATA MAST E Ricons in it as follows note the box may need resizing on your system ADT Date did ka Wado To Install the Data Base Toolkit The AOR Data Base Toolkit has its own set of distribution disks and must be installed separately from the tuner applications To install the Data Base Toolkit place the first disk of the set in floppy drive A and follow these instructions From the Start button on the task bar 12 Introduction AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Select the Run option and type A SETUP EXE into the open dialog Press lt ENTER gt or click on the OK button to proceed This will start the setup program for the Data Base Toolkit and allow the files to be transferred onto your system You will see the following dialog box appear on screen irala Deerbmalios rra a bev nde valle kde oe
88. s You can produce a text report of the results you obtain using the expression you constructed These text reports can be imported by AOR radio control programs where supported for use directly with the radio The picture below shows the results form with a single record from the results table a table listing is shown by default Fa You can switch between display modes using the F2 key bna crn Hr A 11154 An kan 4 E s fdas Laris Ha naa ina haan mate im EE eee EN Gus Te If geographical data could be fused with the transmitter data this is appears as geographical in each record The latitude and longitude values are extracted from the place names data bases and are used when plotting maps in AOR control packages where supported The Search Results form looks like the following if in table mode 109 HF Broadcasters Form AOR Data Base Toolkit b rala apy Bada ere Pieced lie ors 1I Harda Flo IFE ia Hu xm A ar car r oy I amerin 7 Fa glen i iai oP eke Sarat _im mm Dasa TY w 7 KE You can review the results and remove any unwanted records by selecting them with your mouse and using the Delete push button This is useful for removing duplicate records created as a result of the same geographical name appearing in different countries When you are satisfied with the contents of the results table you can export it in text RPT format by typing in a filename of your choice without the
89. s a numeric or float field with O which AOR Data Base Toolkit treats as a zero value rather than a blank value The distinction between blank and zero 98 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit values in numeric and float fields is significant when you calculate a value such as an average FormiGo to Record Number Moves to a specified record and makes it current Use FormlGo to Record Number to navigate in a table The Go to Record dialog box looks like Record Specifies the number of the record to which you are moving Enter the record number or use the spin box to select it Form Previous Record Le Moves to the previous record and makes it current FormiNext Record Moves to the next record and makes it current FormlTop Record 4 Moves to the first record in the table and makes it current FormiBottom Record m Moves to the last record in the table and makes it current Form Refresh Records Updates the display of all records to reflect the latest changes to data This menu option is only relevant for network data bases not used here 99 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit Use this command to ensure that the data you display reflects the latest changes made to tables by other users on a network This command is most often used when accessing data from tables stored on a database server however you can also use it to update the data buffers for open AOR Data Base Toolkit
90. s length Anywhere in Field Searches for records whose field has the Find What value anywhere inside it Sounds Like Searches for records whose field sounds like the Find What value The search is a sound a like or phonetic search Match Case Matches both uppercase and lowercase letters in the Find What value and field to search Start Search From Choose where you want to start the search Top Record Starts the search from the first record Current Record Starts the search from the current record Speed Filter Indicates whether the search will take advantage of a Speed Filter AOR Data Base Toolkit automatically uses Speed Filters whenever possible Find push button Finds the next occurrence of the search value Replace push button Replaces the specified replacement field of the current record with the Replace With value Replace All push button Replaces all occurrences of the specified replacement field with the Replace With value Close push button 97 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit Closes the dialog box leaving the record pointer where it was after the last Find or Replace Advanced gt gt push button The Scope panel gives you options for specifying the scope of the operation This panel is described in the Scope Panel section of this manual FormlAdd Records Appends a new blank record to the end of the current table and positions the insertion point in the first field of that r
91. s of the active window Use FilelPrint Setup to select a printer and to set printer options Only memory channels with data in them will be printed 54 File menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Print Setup The FilelPrinter Setup command displays the Printer Setup dialog box which allows you to select and configure the Windows compatible printer to be used to print documents in the application 55 File menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Send ES This File menu option allows you to send memory files using e mail through Microsoft Exchange When you select FilelSend Exchange is launched automatically and pre loaded with the current active memory file ready for you to send it as an e mail attachment over the Internet You can also send memory files as FAXes using Exchange Exit The FilelExit command exits AR3030 Tuner If you have modified files without saving you ll be prompted to save before exiting 56 File menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows EDIT MENU OPTIONS The edit menu provides you with all the facilities you need to edit the data displayed inside the windows Most of the edit menu options work by copying cutting and pasting using Windows Clipboard You often need to highlight areas of text before using edit menu options It is possible to select an individual line simply by clicking on it If you want to select several lines at once you can select a blo
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93. se elements to be pasted into the expression from the Paste list box VHF gt ANTENNA Character 10 Y OK x Cancel Help You can either type a valid dBase expression into the Expression box or construct one from the Category Table and Paste lists experts only You can use the lower panels working from left to right to select each element of the expression from the lists As you select from each list the list to its right shows the choices that are available in that group e The Category list contains the main categories of items you can use in an expression When you choose a category the types available in that category appear in the Type list e The Type list shows the choices for the category shown in the Category list When Field is selected in the Category list this list is labelled Table instead of Type and shows open tables When you choose a Type the elements of that type appear in the Paste list e The Paste list shows the actual building blocks within the category and type you have chosen Choose an element from the list to insert into the expression you are building The Safety Net helps you construct dbase expression with all the necessary elements and proper syntax It checks the syntax or your expression as you build it and is selected from the Safety Net check box at the top of the Expression Builder dialog Before starting to build an expression decide if you want to use Safety Net If you ar
94. sm tezmi 34H TE Mm mute teen iiin a ree iia tin Mita H F diia Gaa 5H jiw a m i bidarid mi WS a T ml Pira 2m mw i El dt Records are sorted in the table in alphabetical order based on place name This may lead to irregular record numbering Add Button ar g EA This form push button appends a new record to the end of the table The name that you enter into the PLACE field in the station data bases must match the spelling and case you use here for the fusion of geographical data to work properly Normally place names in the station data bases include the country or region separated with a comma In this data base only the place part of the name is significant but the STATE field helps to distinguish between place names in more than one country Example Buxton U K in this data base will not match with BUXTON U K or Buxton UK in the PLACE field in the station data bases 118 World Place Names Form AOR Data Base Toolkit Pack Button Alt pe PV i form push button permanently removes all records from the logbook that are marked for deletion A YOU CANNOT RECOVER DELETED RECORDS ONCE THE TABLE HAS BEEN PACKED Close Button This form push button closes the World Place Names Form If the World Place Names Form is the only form that is open Close will also close the AOR Data Base Toolkit application Help Button This form push button opens this help file at the contents for World Place Nam
95. stop searching and return to normal operation A search automatically tunes the receiver through all frequencies between two specific limits looking for active frequencies Scan recalls specific spot frequencies which have been stored into a memory file 64 Tools menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Spectrum Display The spectrum window looks like 11 5 i buks kep 12015000 Mode 5H Sip 50 The display shows the signal level on each active frequency found A maximum of 400 signal traces can be shown on the display although the thickness of each trace depends on the number of tuning steps in the search If you have a large number of tuning steps the traces will be thin if you have a small number the traces will appear much thicker You can clear the display using the Options Clear menu option or print it out using the Otions Print menu option You can also measure the frequency and signal level of each signal trace by moving your mouse over the display Moving position indicator bars help you to line up the mouse over the display The mouse position is shown in the bottom left hand corner of the display in terms of frequency and signal level HF Utilities This option launches the optional HF Utilities data base if installed The data base application is part of the AOR Data Base Toolkit available separately and is a separate executable Refer to the on line help and the AOR Data Base Toolkit manual for fu
96. tables 100 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit SCOPE PANEL The Scope panel appears in find and replace dialog boxes and is opened with the Advanced gt gt push button An example of the scope panel for a Find operation is shown below Use the Scope options as follows e Choose All Rest Next or Record to specify which set of records is affected by the command e Optionally specify For or While conditions to further narrow the set of records Each option has a priority The list below defines the order of precedence for the scope options e While e All Rest Next Record e For For example if you choose Next 3 and For ID Radio Netherlands AOR Data Base Toolkit operates on the next 3 records if the name field equals Radio Netherlands All Specifies every record in the current table Rest Specifies all records from and including the current record to the end of the file Next Specifies any number of records from and including the current record to the end of the table Enter the number of records or use the spin box to select the number If you 101 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit specify more records than the table contains the change affects all records from the current record to the end of the file Record Specifies a single record by its record number Enter the record number or use the spin box to select it If you specify a record that does not exist a messag
97. the AOR data base Maps This powerful feature of the program provides a link between the AOR data base and software control of your radio Using the map display you can read text reports from the AOR data base plot individual transmitter sites and tune the radio from the mouse just by clicking on a TX site Further details are given in the MAPS section of this manual Scan Operation Scan allows you to review selected frequencies in a memory file by tuning to them automatically in sequence A Memory SCAN operation directly by the radio is not supported by the RS 232 command set You need to have a memory file MEM open in the desktop and some memory channels selected before you begin a scan To select channels you can either select a continuous block of data by clicking on the first line then again on the last line with the fe SHIFT key held down alternatively you can select a number of lines that are not in a block by single clicking on each with the fe CNTRL key held down Once you have selected the channels in the memory window you want open the scan dialog from the main menu and they will appear in the Selected box as follows Scan Operation x Selected 00 11175 00 USB bw2 0 PBS 0 0 kHz 01 198 00 SNC bw5 4 PBS 1 3 kHz 02 60 00 CW bw2 0 PBS 0 0 kHz B 04 6045 00 AM bw6 6 PBS 0 0 kHz Dwell Time 5 1s a ul gt 10s You can set the dwell time on each channel using the scroll bar to sele
98. the propagation properties of the ionosphere produced by programs such as MUFSight give us one of the best pictures possible of the actual propagation conditions The predictions produced by MINIMUF have been compared to measurements using sounder techniques and has been shown to be accurate in most situations to within 3 8 MHz It is less reliable at distances less than 250 miles 76 Propagation in the atmosphere MUFsight Propagation Prediction USING THE PROGRAM This section gives an explanation of how to use MUFSight The Basics Start the application by either double clicking the application icon or use the run command of Windows 3 x or Windows 95 The initial screen is as shown in figure 1 The various regions of the display are marked Statusbar Plotting Arca Figure 1 The initial screen display The plotting area is blank but the statusbar along the bottom displays data read in from the MUFSIGHT INI file and from the system clock If you are starting the application for the first time or you have changed your location or there is a change in the local time difference to UTC due to change in daylight saving time enter these data in the Set Up dialog box see figure 2 accessible from the Set Up Home Location menu selection 77 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction Home Longitude ae Local Time Difference To UTC He Figure 2 Set Up Dialog Box Use the help button in the dialog for g
99. ting operation After you redo an edit the Redo command is replaced with Undo Otherwise the next editing operation brings back the Undo command You can undo only one editing operation The Undo command is not available 1f you have not performed an editing operation EditlCut Removes the selected text or object and places it on the Clipboard Use this command to move text or an object such as an OLE object from one record to another e Once the Clipboard contains text or an object you can paste it elsewhere using EditlPaste e The contents of the Clipboard are not deleted when you paste so you can paste many times e The Clipboard holds only one entry so each time you cut the previously cut or copied entry is replaced e To reverse the effect of this command choose EditlUndo e To copy text or an object and move it to another place choose EditlCopy followed by EditlPaste To remove text or an object without placing it on the Clipboard choose EditlDelete 91 Harness Application AOR Data Base Toolkit The Cut command is not available if no text or objects are selected EditlCopy dl Copies the selected text object or record to the Clipboard without removing it from its original location Use this command to copy an item such as an OLE object to another location e Once the Clipboard contains an item you can paste it elsewhere using EditlPaste e The contents of the Clipboard are not deleted when
100. to overlay data base data on top of your map You can then tune simply by clicking on the transmitter symbols that are displayed A simple system of symbols is used to indicate when there is more than one frequency active from the same site or when there is more than one transmitter at the same oe Pon E location The following symbols may appear just to the left of the symbol depending on the data available AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows E when more than one frequency on the same TX F when more than one transmitter at the same site The following menu options are provided from the Maps window File This menu allows you to select overlay options Overlay You can open a text format data base report RPT file using the standard Open dialog but you must have plotted a map first Clear This option blanks the map display so that you can plot a new map and overlay 1t with fresh data Setup This menu allows you to set your home geographical location for plotting on the map Home This dialog lets you select your home geographical location This is the location on the map that has a symbol plotted on it The Home Location dialog looks like Home Location Eg Latitude Longitude _ Cancel Help You can enter the latitude longitude and a place name All geographical angles must be entered in decimal degrees eg 51 92 with Southern and Western values being negative The values you enter are stored in the i
101. tuning and kHz display are all animated when you click on the fine tuning control Attenuator switch The attenuator switch can be used to select 0 10 or 20 dB of attenuation Click on the control to move the attenuator switch between its available settings The DX setting corresponds to 10 dB while the local setting corresponds to 20 dB of RF attenuation Mode switch The mode switch is used to cycle through the available receiver modes Click repeatedly on the mode switch control to select your required mode The switch is animated as you click on it S meter display The S meter display is a needle type which moves in step with the received signal strength 24 Getting started AOR AR7030 Tuner for Windows Volume knob Use this rotary knob to control the receiver s audio level To operate the control click on the right hand side of the control to increase the volume or on the left hand side to decrease it Power switch Click on the power switch to close the Analogue Desktop personality window You can open it again at any time from the Personalities menu option on the desktop Digital Desktop Personality This personality gives you simple and direct access to the most important controls on the AR7030 radio but remotely over the RS 232 connection The personality includes a dual VFO display with full status information on show Mode Power meter age Status j j j Z Bandwidth j i j j j 1 2 3 MHz ENTES m
102. uding the pin configuration is given in Section 7 Computer Control RS 232C of the AR3030 Ogerating Manual No level shifting interface is required unlike other manufacturer s receivers you just connect a serial port of your computer directly to the radio Starting the program To launch AR3030 Tuner for Windows Select the AOR AR3030 Tuner shortcut from the AOR BATA MASTER option of the Programs menu on the task bar The AR3030 Tuner program should then appear on your screen The main window has a number of components as follows 47 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows ai thar Reni Status display ir Ja 1 Men np he FA MIN 5 BERG Fag i 5 908000 FAX Fast Bor Low ARS USAF 465 Elkhorn 6 IM FAX Fest Bor Low HIM RF USDE Easton ES Fant For Low Hurmansk Heber ES tat Ror Los GYA HH Leedian 6 855000 FAX Fatt for Low HG USH fan Francisco 6 855000 FAR Fact hor Low Hip 6 G56000 Fan Fact Bor Low HH EF aecauver 6 GP6800 FAN Fast Bor Low FH CF Balifas 6 7E0000 FAX Fast Bor Low Rostou na Pray 6 720000 FAX Fast Bor Low EPH 71 Kiper Meteo FPO FAX Fact Bor Low Ankara Meteo BST FAR tant Bor Low usar aii Mansiin 8573000 FAX Fast Mor Low Hobie Madin i fhe Pa ee rus binme ssi e ea rs d Hinimised wi Desktop EE OES B iiney He E E direh Seen e ga ead Menu The main menu provides access to all the features of the program and is located just below the top edge of the window
103. uidance on the format of the data to be entered N B The new location data will be saved in the file MUFSIGHT INI when the application is quit and read in automatically when the application is started again The initial time and date selected by the application is the date read from the system clock and the hour nearest to the hour read from the system clock converted to UTC The initial sun spot number is read from the file MUFSIGHT INI These values are displayed in the bottom status bar To make changes to any of these values press the FY button or use the Set Up Input ParameterSselection from the menu to access the Input Parameters dialog box see figure 3 Input Parameters x Date Month Day Time UTC ae Sun Spot Number IE 1 Short O Long C Path Figure 3 The Input Parameters Dialog box The help button in the dialog gives advice on the format of the data to be entered After you have made your selection you are ready to plot your first set of predicted usable frequencies Press the button or use the Plotting Plot Usable Frequency menu selection to generate the plot This should have produced a plot of the MUF shown as blue squares with a map of the world in a cylindrical plot superimposed The home location is marked as a green dot See figure 4 for an example 78 Using the program MUFsight Propagation Prediction GJ MuFSight File Setup Plotting Help me i Mon MUF 135 LUF 103
104. with Southern and Western values being negative Normally the rotation angle is 90 degrees but you can select another angle if you prefer Type in the values you require and click on OK to accept or Cancel to Abort Zoom In This option zooms in by a factor of x2 and re plots the transmitter data Zoom Out This option zooms out by a factor of x2 and re plots the transmitter data Antipodes This option rotates the map to the opposite side of the Earth Rotate 90 degrees 71 Maps AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows This option rotates the map through 90 degrees of longitude Rotate 90 degrees This option rotates the map through 90 degrees of longitude 72 Maps AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows Part III MUFsight Propagation Prediction 73 Maps MUFsight Propagation Prediction INTRODUCTION MUFSight is a propagation prediction utility that generates the maximum and lowest usable frequencies for communication between a home location and a DX site The program can display these frequencies against world maps using two different projections for a specified time or by double clicking on the maps view the usable frequencies for the DX location under the mouse over a twenty four hour period MUFSight is based on the well respected propagation prediction algorithm MINIMUF which models the propagation properties of the F layers taken as a single region MUFSight also includes a prediction of the lowest
105. x Frequency i Frequency Step Size q 5 M Mode USB M Load Dwell Time 1 Save 1s Am gt 10s Spectrum Help Close You need to specify a lower and upper VFO frequency a step size mode and dwell time before you start The step size allows you to align tuning with the channel spacing used by the radio services you are listening to 63 Tools menu options AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows eg 5 kHz for HF broadcasts 9 kHz for MW AM in Europe 10 kHz for MW AM in North America The dwell time is selected using a scroll bar you can choose any value in the range 1 10s per tuning step If you want a spectrum display press the Spectrum push button BEFORE starting the search A separate window is then used to display the spectrum which is the mean signal level found on each frequency step See the section below for details of the Spectrum Display window If you want to save the search parameters you have entered for re use later click on the Save push button to open a standard File Save As dialog To load a set of search parameters saved earlier click on the Load push button The lower frequency upper frequency mode and chosen step size are stored in a PBS file on disk Note these push buttons are only active when not actually doing a search To begin a search press the Start push button To pause on an active frequency press Stop push button and Start again to resume Click on Close to
106. y channels directly in the radio click on the MEMO key and use the keypad to select the channel you want 00 99 Click on MEMO again to transfer the channel to the main VFO To store a frequency in the radio s memory directly click on Min then either select a channel from the keypad and click on ENT BS or click on Min again to use the next available blank channel A Memory SCAN operation and VFO A B select are not supported by the RS 232 command set and so cannot be emulated in software 52 Getting started AOR AR3030 Tuner for Windows FILE MENU OPTIONS The file menu contains all the menus you need to work with files and manage memory data held on disk The content of each file is shown inside a data window on the desktop New pa ro The File New command opens a new untitled memory data window and makes it the active window AR3030 Tuner prompts you to name untitled documents when they are closed Open pEl E The FilelOpen command displays the Open dialog box so you can select a file and create a new window to display it Folders c ar3030 2 Cancel yes 1 ar3030 Network I Read only List files of type Drives Memory File mem y EJ c gold Close FilelClose closes the currently active window If you have modified the file without saving you will be prompted to save before exiting Save Ex Ba The FilelSave command saves the file in the active window to d

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